Author: Groom, Winston,
Title: A STORM IN FLANDERS - The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918 : Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front.
Description: Cassell, London, 2003, 1st edn. UK, xii, 276pp, 27pp half tone photo ills., 3pp maps, maps at endpapers, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the battles around the town of Ypres in Belgium during WW1, where Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler both fought, the town in the way of the German 'Schlieffen Plan' to outflank the British and French armies, where relentless German attacks were repelled at great cost as witnessed by the Menin Gate memorial at Ypres to nearly 55,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers, just some of those whose bodies were never found (a further 35,000 are recorded at the Tyne Cot memorial), very faint bump upper tip upper board, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,
Keywords: war ww1 flanders ypres western front
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Title: A STORM IN FLANDERS - The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918 : Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front.
Description: Cassell, London, 2003, 1st edn. UK, xii, 276pp, 27pp half tone photo ills., 3pp maps, maps at endpapers, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the battles around the town of Ypres in Belgium during WW1, where Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler both fought, the town in the way of the German 'Schlieffen Plan' to outflank the British and French armies, where relentless German attacks were repelled at great cost as witnessed by the Menin Gate memorial at Ypres to nearly 55,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers, just some of those whose bodies were never found (a further 35,000 are recorded at the Tyne Cot memorial), very faint bump upper tip upper board, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,
Keywords: war ww1 flanders ypres western front
Price: GBP 14.50 = appr. US$ 20.71 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 38783
- Book number: 38783
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