Steel and Mud: A Squad Enters the Great War

By Christine Goodrich and George D Goodrich IV

In 1914, the world marched into war believing it would be brief.

It was not.

Steel and Mud: A Squad Enters the Great War is an educational historical fiction novel that follows a fictional squad of soldiers and nurses as they move through real events, real places, and real consequences of World War I on the Western Front.

From the first trenches of 1914 to the killing fields of Verdun and the Somme, the story traces the transformation of ordinary people caught inside an industrial war unlike anything the world had known. As months turn into years, optimism gives way to exhaustion, endurance, and loss. Trench warfare, poison gas, mass offensives, and shell shock reshape both the battlefield-and the people who survive it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GM6X9FZK
• ISBN13: 9798247247630
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"