WW I in Flanders - A portent of the Great War to Come
Flanders was the most dreaded place to be in all of the First World War, probably of any war in history. The Great Powers used all of the advances in technology to inflict horrors on each other. One of our favorite authors, Winston Groom, in "A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient " tells of those who fought and the 1 million who died in this climactic struggle. The Ypres Salient, Passchendaele, the Christmas Truce of 1914 are all the stuff of legend and the mosaic of great armies locked in deadly combat
Top Recommendation for September
A Storm in Flanders, by Winston Groom (2003 - 288pp)
Superb narrative writing by a top historian about the initial German invasion of Belgium, fighting in the Ypres salient ovver 4 years, infamous Passchendaele.and Christmas Truce of 1914