In Flanders Fields: The 1917 CampaignOf all the grim, gallant and inglorious battles of the Western Front, Passchendaele is the name evocative of the mud and bl ood that pervaded World War I. The total gain - a few thousand yards of indefensible slough - cost about a million Allied lives. |
Contents
List of Plates | 9 |
Acknowledgements | 19 |
The Deadlock | 27 |
The Home Front | 40 |
The Overture | 58 |
The Interlude | 98 |
Triumph at Messines | 118 |
The Signed Contract | 136 |
The Opening Phase | 175 |
The Intermission | 200 |
The Menin Road | 215 |
Haigs Decision | 233 |
The Slough of Despond | 249 |
Journeys End | 274 |
War and Peace | 298 |
On the Brink | 158 |
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