Review: They Called It Passchendaele: The Third Battle of Ypres & the Men Who Fought in It
User Review - TheIron Paw - GoodreadsThough I marked this as "read" I really didn't get very far into it. I found the author's writing style and approach to the story too much like a tabloid article ("rah! rah! our side against ... Read full review
Review: They Called It Passchendaele: The Third Battle of Ypres & the Men Who Fought in It
User Review - Bobby Jenkins - GoodreadsThis book takes place in the town of Ypres, Belgium in the year of 1917. Ypres has been one of the biggest areas where the fighting during the First World War took place. The battleground where the ... Read full review
Review: They Called It Passchendaele: The Third Battle of Ypres & the Men Who Fought in It
User Review - Alice - GoodreadsThink of the First World War and you think of mud and blood, of weeks spent waiting in wet trenches followed by advances in which thousands were mown down by machine guns. That's Passchendaele ... Read full review
Review: They Called It Passchendaele: The Third Battle of Ypres & the Men Who Fought in It
User Review - Leigh Clayton - GoodreadsI have recently read They Called It Passchendaele by Lyn MacDonald and whilst it gave a good account of the battle of Passchendaele I thought that it could have been better. I found that the book was ... Read full review
Review: They Called It Passchendaele: The Third Battle of Ypres & the Men Who Fought in It
User Review - Len Roberto - Goodreads5 miles in 99 days...over 400,000 casualties...the conditions these men fought in is not believable, it is just the most awful conditions ever fought in. Read full review
Review: They Called It Passchendaele: The Third Battle of Ypres & the Men Who Fought in It
User Review - Michael Jecks - GoodreadsAn awful story, but sympathetically told by this wonderful historian. She tells the story of the soldiers from their own point of view, and the reader sees the mud, death and horror through their eyes. A book I read forty years ago for the first time. Read full review
Review: They Called It Passchendaele: The Third Battle of Ypres & the Men Who Fought in It
User Review - Shirleyleishmanlives - GoodreadsOne of the best books written about the Great War. Period. Read full review
Review: They Called It Passchendaele: The Third Battle of Ypres & the Men Who Fought in It
User Review - Chas Bayfield - GoodreadsThis book is incredible. Eyewitness accounts from the allied survivors of the Third Battle of Ypres. The stories are compelling - the months of idleness and then the incessant rain and mud. We are ... Read full review
Review: They Called It Passchendaele: The Third Battle of Ypres & the Men Who Fought in It
User Review - Zaggog - GoodreadsFabulous book. Of interest to the Great War enthusiast as well as the casual reader. Read full review
Review: They Called It Passchendaele: The Third Battle of Ypres & the Men Who Fought in It
User Review - Helen - GoodreadsThis comprises eyewitness accounts from the men who fought in the Flanders mud. It could have been incredibly mawkish, but it managed to avoid any such sentimentality. That isn't to say it isn't a ... Read full review
