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Salient Points Four: Ypres Sector 1914-1918

Door Tony Spagnoly e.a.

Categorie
WO I
Boeknummer
#327612-XD24
Titel
Salient Points Four: Ypres Sector 1914-1918
Auteur
Spagnoly, Tony & Ted Smith
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Barnsley : Leo Cooper
Jaar van uitgave
2004
ISBN10
0850529328
ISBN13
9780850529326
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with b/w photographs, revised edition, 8vo. Cameos of the Western Front.
Samenvatting

Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA ; R Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery and eventual burial of a Lancashire Fuslier who was killed in action in 1914; the research leading to the erection in 2002 of a 'Believed to be buried' headstone in the Strand cemetery of an Australian killed in action at Messines in 1917; the action in 1914 that initiated the birth of the infamous 'Birdcage' on the western edge of Ploegsteert Wood and other stories of interest to enthusiasts of the Great War. Another in the Cameos of the Western Front series on men, minor actions and bat
... (Lees verder)tlefield sites, this book, like its predecessors is an ideal 'companion' for the battlefield visitor.
Pagina's
146
Conditie
Nieuw
Prijs
€ 8,00

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