ww1 battlefield tours

This book is a “Visitor’s Guide” designed to facilitate walks, cycles and drives around the Somme battlefield beyond those normally attempted, as the title suggests. It covers the main secondary actions of the 1916 Somme campaign, from Beaucourt to Mametz, and is a companion to the authors’...

Review by goodoldboy. This is an excellent little book all about the reconstruction of Westhoek (West Flanders) in Belgium after the Great War. After the Armistice of 1918 entire towns and villages had ceased to exist, the ground was flooded and heavily polluted and the landscape was a...