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Ypres 1914 - The Menin Road (Paperback)
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Ypres 1914 - The Menin Road (Paperback)
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List price R412
Loot Price R352
Discovery Miles 3 520
You Save R60 (15%)
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These three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the
centenary of the final major battle of the 1914 campaign on the
Western Front. Although fought over a relatively small area and
short time span, the fighting was even more than usually chaotic
and the stakes were extremely high. Authors Nigel Cave and Jack
Sheldon combine their respective expertise to tell the story of the
men - British, French, Indian and German - who fought over the
unremarkable undulating ground that was to become firmly placed in
British national conscience ever afterwards. The most direct route
to Ypres for the advancing German columns in October 1914 was along
the axis of the Menin Road. It was here that the Old Contemptibles
of the BEF earned their legendary heroic status as they fought off
increasingly desperate German assaults day after day, whilst place
names such as Zandvoorde, Polygon Wood and Gheluvelt were first
etched into the British national consciousness. Bent and battered
by the German storm, dressed in rags and short of food, equipment
and ammunition, the regiments of the old professional army stood
their ground against huge odds.When, on 11th November, they finally
halted the Prussian Guards around Polygon Wood, virtually within
sight of Ypres, they were reduced to one thin firing line. The BEF
was at its last gasp, but it had inflicted a crushing defeat on the
German army.
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