TY  - GEN
T1  - Passchendaele : the untold story
A1  - Prior, Robin
A2  - Wilson, Trevor, 1928-
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven ; London
PB  - Yale Nota Bene
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn824698575
AB  - "No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gains made by the Allies in four desperate months were won back by Germany in only three days the following March. The devastation at Passchendaele, the authors argue, was neither inevitable nor inescapable; perhaps it was not necessary at all. Using a substantial archive of official and private records, much of which has never been previously consulted, Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior provide the fullest account of the campaign ever published. The book examines the political dimension at a level which has hitherto been absent from accounts of 'Third Ypres.' It establishes what did occur, the options for alternative action, and the fundamental responsibility for the carnage. Prior and Wilson consider the shifting ambitions and stratagems of the high command, examine the logistics of war, and assess what the available manpower, weaponry, technology, and intelligence could realistically have hoped to achieve. And, most powerfully of all, they explore the experience of the soldiers in the light--whether they knew it or not--of what would never be accomplished."--Publisher's Web site
OP  - 237
NO  - Originally published: New Haven : London : Yale University Press, 1996.
CN  - D542.Y72 P8 2002eb
SN  - 9780300184839
SN  - 0300184832
SN  - 0300093071
SN  - 9780300093070
SN  - 0300066929
SN  - 9780300066920
SN  - 9780300221213
SN  - 0300221215
KW  - Ypres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917.
KW  - 3e bataille d'Ypres, Ypres, Belgique, 1917.
KW  - HISTORY : Military : World War I.
KW  - Belgium : Ieper
KW  - Angriffsschlacht
KW  - Angriffsstrategie
KW  - Artillerie
KW  - Materialschlacht
KW  - Politische Führung
KW  - Weltkrieg : 1914-1918
KW  - Flandern
KW  - 1917
ER  -