55 Miles: Same Mud

What do a medieval soldier outside Calais and a trench-bound rifleman near Arras have in common?
Everything.

55 Miles: Same Mud isn’t a history book in the traditional sense.
It’s a journey—through war, power, forgotten men, and the lie of progress.

Over seven gripping, vivid chapters, Andy Wells draws a line between the past and the present, connecting events that happened centuries apart and showing how little has changed. From the ambitions of kings to the boardrooms of modern power, one thing remains the same: the burden always falls on the man in the mud.

This book is for the thinkers.
The skeptics.
The men who don’t fall in line just because someone said “trust the system.”

It’s a challenge—to see the pattern, to question the cost, and to decide what you’re willing to accept.
From the siege of Calais to the trenches near Arras, it’s only 55 miles.
But it took us 500 years to walk it.
And maybe now, those fifty-five miles belong to you too.