In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser - Hardcover

Paul Van Pul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844154920 ISBN 13: 9781844154920

Publisher: Pen & Sword Military, 2007

Synopsis

In October 1914 four armies were converging on Dunkirk. While France was preparing to defend its main Channel port, the Germans were determined to take it while the British were busy using it. Caught in the middle was the Belgian Army. Belgium was almost totally overrun, safe for a small strip of land near the Pas-de-Calais.This is the story of what happened between Antwerp and Dunkirk that fateful month and how the King of the Belgians safeguarded the independence of his small nation from its all-powerful neighbours.Contains 25 custom-made maps, several drawings and 138 seldom seen photographs.

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Review:

A Flemish historian s dramatic account of how the Belgian army barred the way to the German advance on Dunkirk in the opening months of the Great War - in part by deliberately flooding the low-lying Flanders plain. --Chris Buckland

Synopsis:

Presents the story of what happened between Antwerp and Dunkirk in 1914 and how the King of the Belgians safeguarded the independence of his small nation from its all-powerful neighbours. This book also contains 25 custom-made maps, several drawings and 138 seldom seen photographs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1844154920
• ISBN 13: 9781844154920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224