Autor/-in: Chris Baker

Chris is a former Chartered Engineer and manufacturing consultant whose deep interest in the Great War led him to becoming a professional military historian. He is behind a research business, fourteeneighteen, and is the author of the well-known and invaluable website 'The Long, Long Trail'.

Chris was the Chairman of the Western Front Association for a number of years and was the founder of the very successful internet Great War Forum. Chris's book 'The Battle for Flanders: German defeat on the Lys, 1918' was published by Pen & Sword Military in 2011. In 2014 'The truce: the day the war stopped' was published by Amberley in 2014.

Chris is an honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where he gained a Masters in British First World War History in 2007.