Product Description

Distinguished biographer and historian of modern Europe Alan Palmer tells the story of the war in Flanders as a conflict that has left a deep social and political mark on the history of Europe. Denying Germany possession of the historic town of Ypres and access to the Channel coast was crucial to Britain's victory in 1918. But though Flanders' battlefields are the closest on the continent to English shores, this was always much more than a narrowly British conflict. Passchendaele, the Menin Road, Hill 60 and the Messines Ridge remain names etched in folk memory. Militarily and tactically the four-year long campaign was innovative and a grim testing-ground with constantly changing ideas of strategy and disputes between politicians and generals. Alan Palmer details all its aspects in an illuminating history of the place as much as the fighting man's experience.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #524085 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-24
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 270 pages

Review
"'Palmer's style is as good as his judgement is daring' Sunday Times 'Palmer has an admirable eye for telling detail', Sunday Telegraph A fine piece of narrative history, a combination of suspense and scholarship' --Antonia Fraser

About the Author
Alan Palmer has a first-class honours degree in modern history from Oxford. He is the critically acclaimed author of some 35 histories and biographies that include Frederick the Great, Bismarck, The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, Twilight of the Hapsburgs and Victory 1918.