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They Called It Passchendaele: The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres and the Men Who Fought in It - Softcover
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The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. In this masterly piece of oral history, Lyn Macdonald lets over 600 participants speak for themselves. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in the summer of 1917, mostly raw young troops keen to do their bit for King and Country. This book tells their tale of mounting disillusion amid mud, terror and desperate privation, yet it is also a story of immense courage, comradeship, songs, high spirits and bawdy humour. "They Called It Passchendaele" portrays the human realities behind one of the most disastrous events in the history of warfare.
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Lyn Macdonald is one of the most highly regarded historians of the First World War. Her books tell the men's stories in their own words and cast a unique light on the experiences of the ordinary 'Tommy'. The Roses of No Man's Land, Somme andThey Called it Passchendaele have been recently reissued by Penguin. She lives near Cambridge.
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Her basic inspiration is compassion, her technique is scrupulously painstaking. And her application in finding, interviewing and editing innumerable contributions can only be admired * Daily Telegraph * Brilliantly planned...the knitting together, the arrangement [is] formidable -- Eric Partridge * Irish Press *
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- PublisherAtheneum
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0689708114
- ISBN 13 9780689708114
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages253
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