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Passchendaele: The Untold Story
Robin Prior
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Description for Passchendaele: The Untold Story
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 16 pp. b/w. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 199 x 24. Weight in Grams: 326.
No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gains made by the Allies in four desperate months were won back by Germany in only three days the following March. The devastation at Passchendaele, the authors argue, was neither inevitable nor inescapable; perhaps it was not necessary at all. Using a substantial archive of official and private records, much ... Read more
No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gains made by the Allies in four desperate months were won back by Germany in only three days the following March. The devastation at Passchendaele, the authors argue, was neither inevitable nor inescapable; perhaps it was not necessary at all. Using a substantial archive of official and private records, much ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300221213
SKU
V9780300221213
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