No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than "Passchendaele". By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gains made in four desperate months were won back by Germany in only three days the following March. The devastation at Passchendaele, the authors argue, was neither inevitable not inescapable; nor perhaps was it necessary at ...
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No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than "Passchendaele". By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gains made in four desperate months were won back by Germany in only three days the following March. The devastation at Passchendaele, the authors argue, was neither inevitable not inescapable; nor perhaps was it necessary at all. Using a substantial archive of official and private records, Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior provide a full account of the campaign. The book examines the political dimension at a level which has hitherto been absent from accounts of "Third Ypres". It establishes what did occur, the options for alternative action, and the fundamental responsibility for the carnage. Prior and Wilson consider the shifting ambitions and stratagems of the high command, examine the logistics of war, and assess what the available manpower, weaponry, technology and intelligence could realistically have hoped to achieve. And they explore the experience of the men on the ground in the light - whether they knew it or not - of what was never going to be accomplished.
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Very Good in Not Applicable jacket. Card covers, pp. xvi, 237. Bw ills, maps. The story of the Battle of Passchendaele in The Great War. Slight wear to cover corners. Name on half title. At least VG Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Very Good+ 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Large trade paperback. 237pp., Bibliography, Index. Illuistrated with photographsand maps. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, sqaure, tightly bound copy. An examination of the horror and futility of the campaign in Flanders during the autumn of 1917 through the study of the battle of Passchendaele. A very good+ copy with no faults.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 237 pages. Bibliographic References, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs and maps. First American edition. No previous ownership marks. An examination of the "Third Ypres" from a military and political perspective, with the ineludible conclusion that the carnage was "neither inevitable nor inescapable." A very clean, square, unmarked copy. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket.
