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099			_a940.431 _bHAM
100	1		_aHam, Paul, _eauthor. _939596
245	1	0	_aPasschendaele : _brequiem for doomed youth / _cPaul Ham.
264		1	_aNorth Sydney, NSW : _bWilliam Heinemann, _c2016.
264		4	_c©2016.
300			_axvii, 565 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some colour), maps ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThis book epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. What happened at Passchendaele was the expression of the wearing-down war, the war of pure attrition at its most spectacular and ferocious. This four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the war: blackened tree stumps rising out of a field of mud, corpses of men and horses drowned in shell holes, terrified soldiers huddled in trenches awaiting the whistle. This book tells the story of ordinary men in the grip of a political and military power struggle that determined their fate and has foreshadowed the destiny of the world for a century. This book lays down a powerful challenge to the idea of war as an inevitable expression of the human will, and examines the culpability of governments and military commanders in a catastrophe that destroyed the best part of a generation.
650		0	_aYpres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917. _939286
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xYouth. _987041
650		0	_aYouth and war. _987042
650		0	_aWar _xPsychological aspects. _969993
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