Building the Front: German Military Structures in the Spotlight - Softcover

Blieck, Kristof; Vancoillie, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9082252139 ISBN 13: 9789082252132

Publisher: Uniform Press, 2017

Synopsis

As the German front line moved towards Ypres during World War I, the village of Zonnebeke, Belgium, became an important tactical area for the war. With military operations fairly limited in Flanders in 1916, German troops focused on making Zonnebeke a defensive network of seven lines with pioneer troops and conscripted civil laborers constructing machine gun nests, bunkers, and concrete shelters. With Building the Front, Kristof Blieck and Jan Vancoillie examine this crucial period of the war, offering unique insight into the construction of the German front line and defensive positions in Zonnebeke and Ypres. Marking the 2017 centenary of the Third Battle of Ypres, this book accompanies an exhibition at the Memorial Museum Passchendaele. In minute detail, Building the Front explores the types of hideouts and shelters constructed, the methods used to build them, the locations of underground bunkers and machine gun posts, and the creation of false trenches and painted doors used to mislead Allied air reconnaissance. 
 

About this title

About the Author

Kristof Blieck is an educational officer at the Memorial Museum Passchendaele, in Belgium. Jan Vancoillie is an employee at the National Railway Company of Belgium.

Edition details

• Publisher: Uniform Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9082252139
• ISBN 13: 9789082252132
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88