A First World War classic, revised for the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele. Wolff 's study of the 1917 campaign contains expert narrative in the strategy and tactics of the Battle of Third Ypres and is detailed in its history, evocative of the period and the context. In Flanders Fields begins on New Year's Day 1917 and the violence which ensued; it looks at the ways in which men died and the politics, putting a spotlight on the leaders, and how the campaign was conceived, sponsored and opposed. Reasons for this seemingly endless onslaught are still debated today by military historians, yet in this novelisation of the infamous battle, Wolff goes some way to explain the unexplainable: how was it possible to have such slaughter on an industrial scale only one year after the Somme.

About the Author
Leon Wolff was born as the First World War broke out in 1914, growing up in Chicago, the son of a travelling salesman. He served as a second lieutenant in the US Air Force during the Second World War. Wolff wrote four books in total, Low Level Mission which dealt with the raids on the Ploesti Oilfields in 1943, In Flanders Fields, Little Brown Brother which won the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians and Lockout the story of the Homestead Strike of 1892 and the Carnegie steel empire.


Book Information
ISBN 9781910500897
Author Leon Wolff
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Uniform Press
Publisher Unicorn Publishing Group