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Ypres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917
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Ham, Paul.
Ypres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917
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Passchendaele : requiem for doomed youth / Paul Ham.
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Ham, Paul.
Doubleday, 2017.
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940
.431
H198p
Subjects
Ypres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917
ISBN:
9780857525291 (hc.)
Description:
592 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Originally published: Australia : William Heinemann, 2016.
Summary:
On 18 July 1917, a heavy artillery barrage was unleashed by the Allied forces against an entrenched German army outside the town of Ypres. it was to be the opening salvo of one of the most ferociously fought and debilitating encounters of the First World War. Few battles would encapsulate the utter futility of the war better that what became known as the Battle of Passchendaele. By the time the British and Canadian forces finally captured Passchendaele village on 6 November, the Allies had suffered over 325,000 casualties and the German army over 260,000. How ordinary men on both sides endured this constant state of siege, with a very real awareness that they were being gradually, deliberately felled. The story of an army caught in the grip of an extraordinary power struggle. As Prime Minister Lloyd George and Commander Haig's relationship deteriorated beyond repair, a terrible battle of attrition was needlessly and painfully prolonged. Through an examination of the culpability of governments and military commanders in a catastrophe that destroyed the best part of a generation, Paul Ham argues that Passchendaele, far from being a breakthrough moment, was the battle that nearly lost the Allies the war. Paul Ham is the author of Sandakan, Hiroshima Nagasaki, Vietnam: The Australian War, Kokoda and 1914: The Year the World Ended.
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