Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 268
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-1-5381-4310-0 • Hardback • February 2021 • $34.00 • (£26.00)
978-1-5381-4311-7 • eBook • February 2021 • $32.00 • (£25.00)
Alan Warren teaches politics and international relations at Monash University. He is the author of Burma 1942, World War II: A Military History, Singapore 1942 and Waziristan, The Faqir of Ipi, and the Indian Army.
List of Photographs
List of Maps
Preface
1 Stalemate on the Western Front
2 The Road to Flanders
3 Interregnum in Flanders
4 The Opening Stanza
5 Stormy Weather
6 Menin Road
7 Polygon Wood to Broodseinde
8 Final Steps to Passchendaele
9 The Switch to Cambrai
10 The Tank Corps and the Hindenburg Line
11 Bring Forward the Cavalry
12 The Drive for Bourlon
13 The Tide Turns at Cambrai
14 Aftermath
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A powerful account of British campaigning on the Western Front in 1917–1918 that clarifies the operational consequences of deficiencies, including those of weapons and command.
— Jeremy Black, author of The Great War
Alan Warren has written a deeply engaging account of the sweep of battle on the Western Front in 1917. It humanizes the massively complex battles that were Messines Ridge, Third Ypres, and Cambrai and makes them accessible to a wide readership without sacrificing depth.
— Andrew Wiest, University of Southern Mississippi