Full name: In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign

Author: Leon Wolff Year: 1958 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780141390796 0141390794

Of all the grim, gallant, and inglorious battles of the Western Front, Passchendaele is the name uniquely evocative of the "mud and blood" that pervaded the First World War. The total gain--a few thousand yards of indefensible slough--cost many tens of thousands of Allied lives. In this now-classic account of the Flanders campaign, first published in 1959, Leon Wolff graphically describes the whole terrible business: from Haig's initial plan; his determination to carry it out despite constant opposition from the Cabinet and the muddle of doubts and disagreement among the military staff; through the early stages of the "great offensive"; and to the scene of the battle itself--the Flanders fields that will "forever haunt Western civilization." Similar books: With Our Backs to the Wall by David Stevenson No Man's Land by John Toland 1914 by Lyn MacDonald The Great War by Peter Hart Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead The Road to Verdun by Ian Ousby Tommy by Richard Holmes Catastrophe 1914 by Max Hastings The Somme by Martin Gilbert A Mad Catastrophe by Geoffrey Wawro Somme by Lyn MacDonald The Myth of the Great War by John Mosier Mud, Blood and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan They Called it Passchendaele by Lyn MacDonald World War I by S. L. A. Marshall 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff WAR by Sebastian Junger Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent