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100 1 $aGroom, Winston,$d1944-2020.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78010956
245 12 $aA storm in Flanders :$bthe Ypres salient, 1914-1918 : tragedy and triumph on the Western Front /$cWinston Groom.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAtlantic Monthly Press,$c2002.
300 $axi, 276 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 266-267) and index.
520 1 $a"The Ypres Salient in Belgian Flanders was the most notorious and dreaded place in all of World War I - probably of any war in history. It was said that you could smell the battlefield miles before you reached it - a fetid odor of death. It was where the poppies grew in Flanders Fields while a million men lived like animals in slimy underground trenches and from 1914 to 1918 slaughtered one another with such consistency that even on "quiet days" casualties ran into the thousands.".
520 8 $a"A Storm in Flanders is historian Winston Groom's history of the four-year battle for Ypres. As the engagement degenerated into relentless attrition, the salient became a gigantic corpse factory where hundreds of thousands of men - including Americans - died for gains that were measured in mere yards.
520 8 $aTo break the stalemate, the high commands on both sides over the years debuted and refined some of history's most terrifying weapons and tactics: poison gas, flamethrowers, tanks, stupendous underground mines, air strikes, and the unspeakable misery of trench warfare. The Third Battle of Ypres, also known as Passchendaele, ranks among the most infamous in the history of warfare, where the horror of fighting in mud sometimes waist-deep reduced even the high command to tears.
520 8 $aThe stalemate lasted until the fourth battle, when the Germans finally came within sight of the Eiffel Tower in an all-or-nothing attack and were miraculously beaten back by an Allied army on its very last legs.".
520 8 $a"Illustrated with photographs and drawing from the private journals of the men who fought on the harrowing front lines (including those of young soldier Adolf Hitler, whose experience at Ypres set him on his fateful path), A Storm in Flanders is a work of military history: a drama of politics, strategy, and the human heart, and the struggle for survival and victory against all odds."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aYpres, 1st Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1914.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149401
650 0 $aYpres, 2nd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1915.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149402
650 0 $aYpres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149403
651 0 $aIeper (Belgium)$xHistory, Military.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns$zBelgium$zIeper.
852 00 $bglx$hD542.Y5$iG76 2002