Far from Suitable?: Haig, Gough and Passchendaele: A Reappraisal

by Nicholas Ridley

A new assessment of the Battle of Passchendaele.

Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, until in recent decades eclipsed by the Somme, stood as the representative image of First World War frightfulness and fruitless endeavor. Post-war memory of its myriad horrors arose from the dissemination of traumatic personal experience; the tradition of futility largely from the 1930s condemnation by military historian Basil Liddell...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915113652
• ISBN13: 9781915113658
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 314 Pages