Description
Title: From Bapaume to Passchendale 1917
Author: Gibbs, Philip
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1918
ISBN: N/A
Cover: Hard Cover without Dust Jacket – 384 pages
Comments: This is a heartbreaking book, describing in detail the terrible struggle and hardship men on both sides endured during WW1 in 1917 when the British and British Overseas forces finally pushed through and took Passchendaele.
The writing of British journalist, Philip Gibbs, is eloquent and magnificently descriptive. That’s what makes it heartbreaking and mesmerizing. In many passages he describes the beauty of the countryside and the sky, contrasting this with ‘the beastliness’ (his words) of war and weather. Never ending rain turned the fields of Flanders into a sea of mud, full of shell holes filled slimy water in which men hid, fell into and often drowned.
