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The road to Passchendaele : the heroic year in soldiers' own words and photographs
- Title
- The road to Passchendaele : the heroic year in soldiers' own words and photographs / Richard van Emden.
- Author
- Van Emden, Richard
- Publication
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- 379 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- Summary
- Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly-regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally-held cameras by the soldiers themselves, Richard tells the story of 1917, of life both in and out of the line culminating in perhaps the most dreaded battle of them all, the Battle of Passchendaele. The author has an outstanding collection of over 5,000 privately-taken and overwhelmingly unpublished photographs, revealing the war as it was seen by the men involved, an existence that was sometimes exhilarating, too often terrifying, and occasionally even fun. Richard van Emden interviewed 270 veterans of the Great War, has written extensively about the soldiers' lives, and has worked on many television documentaries, always concentrating on the human aspects of war, its challenge and its cost to the millions of men involved.
- Alternative Title
- Heroic year in soldiers' own words and photographs
- Subjects
- Belgium
- Messines, Battle of (Belgium : 1917)
- World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Western Front > Personal narratives
- 1914-1918
- Western Front (World War (1914-1918))
- France > Arras
- Belgium > Ieper
- Military campaigns
- Arras, Battle of (France : 1917)
- Messines, Battle of, Belgium, 1917
- Ypres, 3rd Battle of (Ieper, Belgium : 1917)
- World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, English
- Ypres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917
- World War (1914-1918)
- Personal narratives > English
- Arras, Battle of, Arras, France, 1917
- War photography
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives – English.
- Personal narratives.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-372) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction; Chapter 1 Winter wonderland -- Chapter 2 Opportunity knocking -- Chapter 3 Opportunity lost -- Chapter 4 Summer success -- Chapter 5 Fresh air and exercise -- Chapter 6 Armageddon calling -- Chapter 7 Blood and mud -- Chapter 8 Bite and hold -- Endpiece -- Acknowledgements -- Sources and permissions -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-3841
- ISBN
- 1473891906
- 9781473891906
- OCLC
- 968188589
- Author
- Van Emden, Richard, author.
- Title
- The road to Passchendaele : the heroic year in soldiers' own words and photographs / Richard van Emden.
- Publisher
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-372) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1914-1918
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-3841