Passchendaele In Perspective explores the context and real nature of the participants experience, evaluates British and German High Command, the aerial and mari
Between July and November 1917, in a small corner of Belgium, more than 500,000 men were killed or maimed, gassed or drowned - and many of the bodies were never
fers a groundbreaking account of World War I from the other side of the continent, brilliantly covering the major military events and the day-to-day life which
In the autumn of 1917, after years of stalemate at Ypres, the British and French armies launched a massive offensive to take Passchendaele Ridge. Following an i
In 1914, Ypres was a sleepy Belgian city admired for its magnificent Gothic architecture. The arrival of the rival armies in October 1914 transformed it into a