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Battle Lines: Ypres – Nieuwpoort to Ploegsteert
Author(s): Jon Cooksey (Author), Jerry Murland (Author)
- Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
- Publication Date: 1 April 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848847939
- ISBN-13: 9781848847934
Book Description
Battle Lines Ypres, the first volume in Pen & Sword’s new series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor to the Ypres Salient and the battlefields of Belgium. Many of the most famous – and most memorable – Great War sites are featured here. Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take visitors over a series of routes that can be walked or biked or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred in each place in vivid detail. They describe what happened, where it happened, and why, and who was involved, and point out the sights that remain there for the visitor to see. Their accounts give a fascinating insight into the landscape of the front line and the acts of war that took place there a century ago.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The first volume in this essential series of Guides to the Great War s western front, this compact book takes visitors from Nieuwpoort on the Flanders coast where the trench lines began, to Ploegsteert Wood – scene of the 1914 Christmas truce – via the infamous Ypres salient and the battlefields of Belgium such as Messines. –Naval and Military Press
About the Author
Jon Cooksey is a leading military historian who takes a special interest in the history of the world wars and the Falklands War. He is the former editor of Battlefields Review and the current editor of Stand To!, the journal of the Western Front Association, and his articles have appeared in many of the foremost military magazines and in national newspapers. As an experienced battlefield guide, he regularly leads tours to the battlefields of both world wars as well as the Falkland Islands. Jerry Murland is a well-known battlefield guide and author of histories of the Great War
