In Flanders Flooded Fields : Before Ypres There Was Yser

Van Pul, Paul

ISBN 10: 1844154920 / ISBN 13: 9781844154920

Published by Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2007

Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # GRP67626704

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.

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

Bibliographic Details

Title: In Flanders Flooded Fields : Before Ypres ...
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good