Bourlon Wood (Battleground Europe) - Softcover

Jack Horsfall; Nigel Cave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850528186 ISBN 13: 9780850528183

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Bourlon Wood is an isolated piece of forest near Cambrai in eastern France. It was the scene of severe fighting in 1917 involving the Canadians. This book concentrates on the dramatic events following the battle of the Somme, when the Germans made a strategic withdrawal, shortening their lines and falling back on the prepared defences of the Hindenburg Line. leaving a wasteland of vacated towns, poisoned wells, felled trees, blown up buildings and booby traps in the territory they had evacuated. Bourlon Wood found itself in the front line with fighting concentrated on a bloody ravine.

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Product Description:

Bourlon Wood The principal action that took place here in February 1917 was of short duration and failure but with fascinating overtones. This is the dramatic story of the events on the Somme after the great battle of 1916 ended and before the Germans withdrew to the Hindenburg Line. Its focus is on a ravine easily as impressive as that at Beaumont Hamel. Full description

Review:

The story of Bourlon Wood, the isolated forest near Cambrai that was the scene of bitter fighting in early 1917. --Naval and Military Press

About this edition

• Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0850528186
• ISBN 13: 9780850528183
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160