THEY CALLED IT PASSCHENDAELE

1993, 254 STRAN - PAGES + 16 STRAN PŘÍLOH - PHOTOPAGES, BROŽOVANÁ - PAPERBACK, VELMI DOBRÝ STAV - VERY GOOD CONDITION

The Story of the Battle of Ypres and of the Men Who Fought in it

Lyn Macdonald's They Called It Passchendaele portrays the human realities behind one of the most disastrous events in the history of warfare.

The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in the summer of 1917, mostly raw young troops keen to do their bit for King and Country.

Lyn Macdonald's They Called it Passchendaele tells their tale of mounting disillusion amid mud, terror and desperate privation, yet it is also a story of immense courage, comradeship, songs, high spirits and bawdy humour.

'It is rare to find a history of the First World War which manages to convey the front-line soldiers' experiences and to describe what it was that enabled those who survived to get through it. Lyn Macdonald has done just that' - Sunday Times