Description
| Product ID: | 9780241952412 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Passchendaele |
| Subtitle: | The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917 |
| Authors: | Author: Lyn Macdonald |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, History, First World War, Battles and campaigns, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, First World War, Battles & campaigns, Belgium, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in the summer of 1917, mostly raw young troops keen to do their bit for King and Country. ''Four years of war turned Ypres into a ghost town. Not a leaf grew on a tree. Scarcely one stone stood upon another. From the battered ramparts the eye swept clean across a field of rubble to the swamp-lands beyond . . .'' |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-09-26 |
