The SALIENT YPRES, 1914-18.
by PALMER, ALAN:
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- Near MINT./Near MINT.
- ISBN 10
- 1841196339
- ISBN 13
- 9781841196336
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.]NMINT/NMINT. Wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,colour artwork illustration 'The Ypres Salient at Night' by Paul Nash repeated to front+rear panels and thumbnail detail of same illustration, to spine/backstrip,and with red+white lettering to all - rear panel with critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vi-xiipp+2-270pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,illustrations list/table,acknowledgements, author's note,14 chapters and Epilogue,8pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp142/3,Notes,a select bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,title page with dedication its reverse,facing page of contents list,and 4 b/w regional maps: Western Flanders and Northern France, double-paged Western Front,and 2 maps of the Salient - one overall view,the other in detail. Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace'.But in 1914 the town,and the Salient,the 35-mile bulge around it on the Western Front,saw a 1,5000-day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First World War that turned it into the devil's nursery.
Alan Palmer tells the story of the war in Flanders as a conflict that has left a deep social and political mark on the history of Europe.Denying Germany possession of the historic town of Ypres and access to the Channel coast was crucial to victory in 1918.But though Flander's battlefields are the closest on the continent to English shores,this was always much more than a narrowly British conflict.Passchendaele, the Menin Road,Hill 60 and the Messines Ridge remain names etched in folk memory. Four years of fighting between the opposing trench-lines made the alient a grim testing ground of innovative warfare.Alan Palmer traces the impact of poison gas,flamethrowers,tanks,land-mine tunnels and aerial combat.He uses official papers,the press and diaries to analyse clashes of policy and personality among the decision makers while drawing on the tales of the men who sought to carry out their plans. 'The Salient' provides an illuminating history of Ypres and of the fighting soldier's experience of the flooded fields of Flanders.
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- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
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- Title
- The SALIENT YPRES, 1914-18.
- Author
- PALMER, ALAN:
- Illustrator
- illus with contemporary b/w photographs and b/w maps.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near MINT.
- Jacket Condition
- Near MINT.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1841196339
- ISBN 13
- 9781841196336
- Publisher
- LONDON.CONSTABLE & ROBINSON,2017.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2007
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