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Passchendaele: The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917 by Lyn Macdonald
Category: Military
The Classic Account of Passchendaele - Reissued for the First World War Centenary. 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 ass ...Show more
Somme by Lyn Macdonald
Category: Military
'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle of the Somme...' The year 1916 was one of the great t ...Show more
The Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn Macdonald
Category: Military
'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War...' Yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking te ...Show more
They Called it Passchendaele by Lyn Macdonald
Category: Military
The full horror of World War I is summed up in the word Passchendaele. The struggle to capture this obscure Flemish village cost a quarter of a million casualties in one of the worst campaigns in the annals of warfare.
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