A Storm In Flanders. Triumph And Tragedy On The Western Front

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Cassell
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: Reprint

Description: 276 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A fast-paced and vivid narrative of the most horrific campaign in history: the four-year slaughter around the Belgian town of Ypres 1914-18. Switching seamlessly between the generals' headquarters, the politicians' councils and -- above all -- the mud and blood of the trenches, this is a wonderfully accessible history. Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler both fought in the frontline at Ypres. Groom reveals what happened to both men at Ypres. We see the campaign through their eyes and the experience of other officers and men, including the war poet Edmund Blunden (later professor of poetry at Oxford). From the desperate defence put up by the tiny British regular army in 1914 to the infamous Passchendaele offensive, this is popular history at its best.

ISBN: 9780304366354