Ypres and the battle of Ypres

Visits to Ypres are usually combined with trips to places like Albert and this guide will be as useful there as the others are for ‘the Somme’. The history contained in it is again as impressive and the suggested itineraries sketched out in the 1920s can still be followed. The Ypres Salient today contains some of the most famous war sites to be found anywhere. The ramparts are evocative and remind one of the troglodytic lives lived in them by thousands of British soldiers; Sanctuary Wood and Hooge are known to anyone with even a fleeting knowledge of the Great War; Hell Fire Corner and the Menin Road have been given permanent niches in British history through soldiers’ songs and stories repeated thousands of times; the village of Passchendaele, Polygon Wood and Zillebecke are all familiar and there is still much to see there. This guide puts them all, very succinctly and very successfully, into a proper historical context

ISBN 10: 0 904775 24 0

ISBN 13: 978 0 904775 24 2