The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way

Seldon, Anthony

ISBN 10: 1838957405 / ISBN 13: 9781838957407

Published by Atlantic Books, 2022

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large 8vo cloth pp349 bw photos sketch maps glossary notes F/VG Walking the ww1 battlefield. Fine copy book. [ Larger book, so possible extra postage overseas. ].

Seller Inventory # 7138

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1838957405
• ISBN 13: 9781838957407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • military
  • history

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Synopsis

In 1915 a young second lieutenant, Douglas Gillespie, wrote to his former headmaster that, when peace came, there should be a commemorative ‘Via Sacra’ from the Swiss border to the English Channel. Soon afterwards, he was killed. A century later Anthony Seldon discovered the letter and, mourning the death of his wife, set out to walk the 1,000-kilometre route, through the battlefields of Verdun, Picardy, the Somme and Ypres.