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Passchendaele : A New History, EPUB eBook

Passchendaele : A New History EPUB

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'A timely re-appraisal . . . a masterpiece' General Lord Richard Dannatt

'Sweeps aside mythology and provides a rational explanation and cool description of what took place' Max Hastings, Sunday Times
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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 found. The Ypres offensive represents the modern impression of the First World War: splintered trees, water-filled craters, muddy shell-holes.

The climax was one of the worst battles of both world wars: Passchendaele. The village fell eventually, only for the whole offensive to be called off. But, as Nick Lloyd shows, notably through previously unexamined German documents, it put the Allies nearer to a major turning point in the war than we have ever imagined.
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'Meticulously researched . . . A harrowing and important history' PD Smith, Guardian

'He brings the battle and its political context vividly to life . . . a model of what a work of military history should be, this is now perhaps the definitive account of this phase of the war on the Western Front' Simon Heffer, Telegraph

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