A storm in Flanders: the Ypres salient, 1914-1918: tragedy and triumph on the Western Front

✍ Scribed by Winston Groom

• Book ID: 100115284
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.;Grove Press
• Year: 2002;2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 870 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1555847803

✦ Synopsis

A Storm in Flanders is novelist and prizewinning historian Winston Groom's gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought -- and thought about -- war. This is Groom's account of what would become the most dreaded place on earth. In 1914, Germany launched an invasion of France through neutral Belgium -- and brought the wrath of the world upon itself. Ypres became a place of horror, heroism, and terrifying new tactics and technologies: poison gas, tanks, mines, air strikes, and the unspeakable misery of trench warfare. Drawing on the journals of the men and women who were there, Winston Groom has penned a breathtaking drama of politics, strategy, and the human heart. 16 pages of black-and-white historical photographs are featured.