Silent Landscape: The Battlefields of the Western Front One Hundred Years on

by Simon Doughty and James Kerr

This is an illustrated book about the landscape of the Western Front where the First World War was fought, relentlessly, for over four years across a narrow ribbon of ground stretching some 440 miles from the North Sea to the Swiss border. All the destructive power then known to man was used here, with success and failure measured in yards rather than human cost. The character of the landscape was soon lost once the battles started in earnest, stripped...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911096036
• ISBN13: 9781911096030
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.9" x 9.6"