Dimensions
131 x 197 x 24mm
The Sacrificial Ground.
On 31 July 1917 British troops began their attempt to break out of the Ypres Salient and hammer the German Army into submission. The ensuing battle encompassed some of the most wretched conditions endured by any of the belligerent armies. Infamously known as Passchendaele, it has come to epitomise the futility and pathos of the whole of World War I.
In this account, the authors bind into their story the graphic and intensely moving words of the gunners, the airmen, the signallers and, above all, the infantry who learned at first hand the nature of the Ypres Salient in 1917. Shouting above the din of battle, they give voice to the vanished legions of men who fought and died at Passchendaele.
