| Title | : | A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Winston Groom |
| Release | : | 2024-11-15 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | History |
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| 1 | A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, | Winston Groom |
| 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. |
