In Flanders Fields

"A First World War classic, detailed in its history, evocative of the period and importantly the context, Wolff's study of the 1917 campaign contains expert narrative in the strategy and tactics of the Battle of Third Ypres. In Flanders Fields begins on New Year's Day 1917; the violence which ensued; the ways in which men died and looks at the politics, putting a spotlight on the leaders, and how the campaign was conceived, sponsored and opposed. Reasons for this seemingly endless onslaught are still debated today by military historians, yet in this novelisation of the infamous battle, Wolff goes some way to explain the unexplainable: how was it possible to have such slaughter on an industrial scale, only one year after the Somme. This revised edition has been published to coincide with the centenary year of the battle and has been updated and introduced by Freddy Declerk MNZM, former chairman of the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917"--Page 4 of cover.