Fatal Avenue: Travellers History of the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders, 1346-1945 - Richard Holmes

a traveller's history of the battlefields of northern France and Flanders, 1346-1945

KORTE INHOUD

A unique work combining military history and travel, which studies the most fought-over area on earth. De Gaulle called it a “fatal avenue” — that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading armies have swept back and forth over this bloody terrain, and the names of battles fought here read like a dictionary of military history — from Agincourt, Calais and Crecy to Verdun, Vimy and Ypres. Fatal Avenue is both a history and a guide — a unique study of a region that has witnessed more bitter military conflict than any other area of its size on earth.
1992Taal: Engelszie alle details...

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1992Uitgever: Pimlico376 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0712658351ISBN-13: 9780712658355

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