A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front

Brand: Grove Press

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UPC:
9780802139986
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2003-04-21
Author:
Winston Groom
Language:
english
Edition:
Reprint
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A Storm in Flanders is novelist and prizewinning historian Winston Groom's gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought -- and thought about -- war. In 1914, Germany launched an invasion of France through neutral Belgium -- and brought the wrath of the world upon itself. Ypres became a place of horror, heroism, and terrifying new tactics and technologies: poison gas, tanks, mines, air strikes, and the unspeakable misery of trench warfare. Drawing on the journals of the men and women who were there, Winston Groom has penned a breathtaking drama of politics, strategy, and the human heart.