Passchendaele - The Untold Story

Robin Prior & Trevor Wilson

ISBN 10: 0300072279 / ISBN 13: 9780300072273

Published by Yale University Press, London, 1996

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Third printing, 256 (xvi, 240) plus 12 half-tone plates, notes, bibliography, index; black and orange card covers. Fine, no marks of previous ownership; unclipped jacket. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Passchendaele - The Untold Story
• Publisher: Yale University Press, London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300072279
• ISBN 13: 9780300072273
• Binding: Softcover/Paperback
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military Affairs

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Synopsis

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than "Passchendaele". By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gains made in four desperate months were won back by Germany in only three days the following March. The devastation at Passchendaele, the authors argue, was neither inevitable not inescapable; nor perhaps was it necessary at all. Using a substantial archive of official and private records, Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior provide a full account of the campaign. The book examines the political dimension at a level which has hitherto been absent from accounts of "Third Ypres". It establishes what did occur, the options for alternative action, and the fundamental responsibility for the carnage. Prior and Wilson consider the shifting ambitions and stratagems of the high command, examine the logistics of war, and assess what the available manpower, weaponry, technology and intelligence could realistically have hoped to achieve. And they explore the experience of the men on the ground in the light - whether they knew it or not - of what was never going to be accomplished.

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yale university press pbk,1996,photos