The Salient

by Alan Warwick Palmer

Book Overview

Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a 1500-day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First World War that turned it into the devil's nursery.

Distinguished biographer and historian of modern Europe Alan Palmer tells the story of the war in Flanders as a conflict that has left a deep social and political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472124804
• ISBN13: 9781472124807
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Constable & Robinson
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 7.7"