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Reconstruction of Ypres - A Walk Through History (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 000
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Reconstruction of Ypres - A Walk Through History (Paperback)
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Loot Price R300
Discovery Miles 3 000
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During the First World War the old medieval City of Ypres was the
centre of one of the most notorious battlefields of war: the Ypres
Salient. As early as 22 November 1914, the most famous monuments of
the town, the Cloth Hall and St Martin's Church, were ablaze. Over
the following four years, the entire town centre would be wiped off
the map. In the winter of 1918-1919, a man on a horse was able to
look right across the town. There remained just a few houses more
or less still upright here and there. During the war, the whole
population of Ypres fled or, from May 1915, was forcibly evacuated.
But the first residents were already returning several weeks before
the armistice. Those willing to return found themselves living in a
totally destroyed town where all but nothing remained. They used
fragments of the debris and abandoned war machinery to build their
first homes. Ten years after the armistice, it looked like the town
had never been witness to any war. Practically all houses had been
rebuilt. Today Ypres is generally considered one of the best
examples of post-conflict reconstruction. Full of stories of
resilience and regeneration, this walk - which lasts about 2 hours
- takes you by the most typical examples of Ypres' post-war
architecture, but also shows the most striking deviations.
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