Passchendaele The Bloody Battle That Nearly Lost The Allies The War (Ham Paul); Black Swan, 2021

One hundred years on... On 18 July 1917, a heavy artillery barrage was unleashed by the Allied forces against an entrenched German army outside the town of Ypres. it was to be the opening salvo of one of the most ferociously fought and debilitating encounters of the First World War. Few battles would encapsulate the utter futility of the war better that what became known as the Battle of Passchendaele. By the time the British and Canadian forces finally captured Passchendaele village on 6 November, the Allies had suffered over 271,000 casualties and the German army over 217,000. Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth shows how ordinary men on both sides endured this constant state of siege, with a very real awareness that they were being gradually, deliberately felled. Here, Paul Ham tells the story of an army caught in the grip of an extraordinary power struggle both global and national. As Prime Minister Lloyd George and Commander Haigs relationship deteriorated beyond repair, so a terrible battle of attrition was needlessly and painfully prolonged. Ham lays down a powerful challenge to the ways in which we have previously seen this monumental battle. Through an examination of the culpability of governments and military commanders in a catastrophe that destroyed the best part of a generation, Paul Ham argues that Passchendaele, far from being a breakthrough moment, was the battle that nearly lost the Allies the war.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781784163099
Автор(ы)	Ham Paul
Вес	0.44
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2021
Жанр	история
Издатель	Black Swan
Издательство	Black Swan
Кол-во страниц	565
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	565
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Тип обложки	мягкая