Passchendaele : the lost victory of World War I /
The definitive account of Passchendaele, one of the most influential and tragic battles of the First World War. Passchendaele. The name of a small, seemingly insignificant Flemish village echoes across the twentieth century as the ultimate expression of meaningless, industrialized slaughter. In the...
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Prologue: the Nivelle Offensive
- Manoeuvres of war
- Haig and the 'Northern Operation'
- 'A great sea of flames'
- 'Have we time to accomplish?'
- 'Under constant fire'
- 'A perfect bloody curse'
- 'Like the black hole of Calcutta'
- 'A question of concentration'
- 'An introduction to hard work'
- 'A stunning pandemonium'
- 'War with a big W'
- 'An overwhelming blow'
- 'The weakness of haste'
- 'Not worth a drop of blood'
- 'Against the Iron Wall'
- Epilogue.