by WinstonGroom (Author)
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.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: UK First Edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 12 Jun 2003
ISBN 10: 0304366358
ISBN 13: 9780304366354
Book Overview: Written by best-selling Pulitzer-nominated author 'expertly paced and free of dull stretches, unlike more technical studies of the Ypres salient: he knows just when it's time to pull his lens from close-ups of hand-to-hand fighting and exploding Germans up to the Big Picture of Ypres in the overall context of World War I.' -- Kirkus Reviews 'Keeps the story fresh for students of World War I without boring those who normally shun military history'. -- Denver Post