In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign - Softcover

Wolff, Leon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910500895 ISBN 13: 9781910500897

Publisher: Uniform, 2017

Synopsis

In Flanders Fields begins on New Year's Day 1917 and the violence which ensued; it looks at the ways in which men died and looks at the politics, putting a spotlight on the leaders, and how the campaign was conceived, sponsored and opposed.
Reasons for this seemingly endless onslaught are still debated today by military historians, yet in this novelisation of the infamous battle, Wolff goes some way to explain the unexplainable: how was it possible to have such slaughter on an industrial scale only one year after the Somme.

About this title

Product Description:

Originally published in 1959, this classic account of the deadlock between German and Allied forces in 1917 analyses the military strategy leading up to, and during, the Battle of Messines and the Passchendaele campaign.

From the Author:

Leon Wolff was born as the First World War broke out in 1914, growing up in Chicago, the son of a travelling salesman. He served as a second lieutenant in the US Air Force during the Second World War. Wolff wrote four books in total, Low Level Mission which dealt with the raids on the Ploesti Oilfields in 1943, In Flanders Fields, Little Brown Brother which won the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians and Lockout the story of the Homestead Strike of 1892 and the Carnegie steel empire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Uniform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1910500895
• ISBN 13: 9781910500897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240