In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser - Hardcover
Synopsis
In October 1914 four armies were converging on Dunkirk. While France was preparing to defend its main Channel port, the Germans were determined to take it while the British were busy using it. Caught in the middle was the Belgian Army. Belgium was almost totally overrun, safe for a small strip of land near the Pas-de-Calais.This is the story of what happened between Antwerp and Dunkirk that fateful month and how the King of the Belgians safeguarded the independence of his small nation from its all-powerful neighbours.Contains 25 custom-made maps, several drawings and 138 seldom seen photographs.
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Review
A Flemish historian s dramatic account of how the Belgian army barred the way to the German advance on Dunkirk in the opening months of the Great War - in part by deliberately flooding the low-lying Flanders plain. --Chris Buckland
Synopsis
Presents the story of what happened between Antwerp and Dunkirk in 1914 and how the King of the Belgians safeguarded the independence of his small nation from its all-powerful neighbours. This book also contains 25 custom-made maps, several drawings and 138 seldom seen photographs.
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- PublisherPen & Sword Military
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1844154920
- ISBN 13 9781844154920
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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