In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign - Brossura

Wolff, Leon

 
9781910500897: In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign

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<div>Originally published in 1958, <i>In Flanders Fields</i> is a classic of World War I literature. Leon Wolff offers&#160;a brilliantly compact fictional narrative of the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as Passchendaele. The battle, which lasted from July to November of 1917, had a staggering cost: it is estimated that 475,000 troops were killed, wounded, or went missing. Through Wolff&#8217;s carefully accurate novelization of the strategy, tactics, and events of the battle, we begin to get glimmers of insight into how slaughter on such a scale was possible&#8212;how the battle was allowed to continue, month after month, at such a terrible cost. No other book takes readers so close to the mud and danger of the Ypres battlefield; on the centennial of World War I, a new generation of readers now has a chance to discover it.</div>

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<div>Born in Chicago in 1914, just as World War I broke out, <b>Leon Wolff</b> served as a second lieutenant in the US Army Air Force during World War II and afterwards became a historian and writer.</div>

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