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In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign

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140:, and others. There are short quotes from newspapers of the day and soldiers at the front, with sketches of the actual battlefield, compared with the views at Headquarters. Wolff includes official minutes of meetings with Lloyd George and the War Cabinet, and diaries of high officers. Albeit tacitly, Haig is implied as making large assumptions without intelligence about the German defences, enemy resources of men and guns, or the conditions of the battlefield. 281: 108:
leading up to the year 1917. It details the military plans of the year by the British, French, and German High Commands with considerable references to the diaries and official histories of the commanders and countries involved, the press, journalists, historians, and political figures. Also included
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praised the book, saying that "no writer before Mr. Wolff has merged truth and art so effectively. We know the beginning, the middle, and the end of the story; yet the reader feels a sense of urgency and suspense as he moves away from the Nivelle fiasco over Messines Ridge and along the Menin road
27: 84:. In 1960, Readers Union Ltd published an edition produced by Longmans, Green & Co. for sale to its members only. In 1963, a re-edition of the book was included in the Time-Life Reading Program, with an additional introduction by 167:. It ends appropriately with a sequel of the end of the careers, and life afterward of Sir William Robertson, Sir Douglas Haig, and David Lloyd George, quoting a line of 345: 472: 317: 129: 449:
Produced for sale to its members only by Readers Union Ltd. Book sourced at the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine Campus), Main Library.
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The first chapter, "The Deadlock", is a brief description of the causes and events of
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The book also details the battles of 1917, from Nivelle's offensive and the
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edition was published "with minor emendations". Based on this, in 2003
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pursuing the will-o'-the-wisp policy of victory by attrition."
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is covered from the perspective of the high commands: the
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are maps and photographic plates of the battlefields.
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Index


Leon Wolff
Third Battle of Ypres
Leon Wolff
J. F. C. Fuller
CB
CBE
DSO
B. H. Liddell-Hart
Penguin Books
Cambridge University Press
World War I
Third Battle of Ypres
British Prime Minister
Lloyd George
Douglas Haig
William Robertson
Robert Nivelle
Ferdinand Foch
French Army mutinies
Messines Ridge
Poelcapelle
Menin Road
Passchendaele
Ypres
Siegfried Sassoon
Menin Gate
Sartor Resartus
Thomas Carlyle
Donald Armstrong

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