Description |
468 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 27 cm |
Summary |
Presents the story of the Somme, showing in panoramas how the Allied high command miscalculated the opening move, and the untold story of the unused saps. This book records the machine gun emplacements in the German lines, guns optimistically meant to have been taken out by an earlier creeping barrage of artillery fire |
Notes |
"Unseen panoramas of the Third Battle of Ypres |
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Includes index |
Subject |
Ypres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917.
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Passendale (Belgium)
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Author |
Banning, Jeremy.
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Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)
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ISBN |
9781845294229 (hbk.) |
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