Passchendaele: The Untold Story
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780300066920 (0300066929)
Publish date: July 24th 1996
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
By 1917 and the third battle of Ypres, the philosophy of the general staffs had evolved to one of mutual slaughter. In early 1915, it was still assumed that rapid advance by large forces of cavalry to clear the way for infantry would overwhelm the opposition. Two years later, trench warfare had sc...