Passchendaele: The Day-by-Day Account

by Chris Mccarthy (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $34.89

  The beginning of the end of World War I was fought in Flanders in the autumn of 1917. The author's patented day-by-day method of telling each side's story, based on new research and aided by comprehensive illustrations and maps, carefully describes each attack by the British under General Plumer and each counterattack by the Germans under Ludendorff. The two critical battles for the Passchendaele-Staden ridge, with ground gained and lost without clear consequences, led to fearful casualties on both sides -- 250,000 British soldiers and 88 German divisions pulverized -- and demonstrates why this form of warfare has never been repeated in any major war.