"2nd Ypres "

[NR72]

Hi All , 

 

Can anyone recommend any books on 2nd Ypres , i have just finished Magnificent but Not war and now looking for others, especially first hand accounts 

 

My Grandad was with the 8 Middx 

Thanks 

Edited 20 November , 2020 by NR72

[Acknown]

For the Canadian experience, I can recommend 'Hell in Flanders Fields - Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres', George H. Cassar, Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2010. Very readable. It describes the formation of the 1st Canadian Division, its preparation in Canada and England, its deployment, and the details of its significant part in 2nd Ypres.

Acknown

[NR72]

2 hours ago, Acknown said:

For the Canadian experience, I can recommend 'Hell in Flanders Fields - Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres', George H. Cassar, Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2010. Very readable. It describes the formation of the 1st Canadian Division, its preparation in Canada and England, its deployment, and the details of its significant part in 2nd Ypres.

Acknown

Thank you 

[KernelPanic]

My go-to volume for the British perspective is another George Cassar book: Trial by Gas, Potomac Books, 2014.

[NR72]

10 hours ago, KernelPanic said:

My go-to volume for the British perspective is another George Cassar book: Trial by Gas, Potomac Books, 2014.

Thanks i will seek it out

[Black Maria]

' Mud and Khaki ' by H.S Clapham and 'Students under Arms ' by A Rule are very good on early 1915 and include 2nd Ypres . There is also Frank

Hawkins book 'From Ypres to Cambrai '  . C.V Burder's memoir 'Hell on Earth' is an excellent memoir , he was a private in the Artist Rifles and 

then joined the 1/8th Middlesex as an officer ( he doesn't name it but that's the battalion i believe he was in ) and fought in every major battle

with it from Loos 1915 to Cambrai in 1917 when he was wounded .

[NR72]

4 minutes ago, Black Maria said:

' Mud and Khaki ' by H.S Clapham and 'Students under Arms ' by A Rule are very good on early 1915 and include 2nd Ypres . There is also Frank

Hawkins book 'From Ypres to Cambrai '  . C.V Burder's memoir 'Hell on Earth' is an excellent memoir , he was a private in the Artist Rifles and 

then joined the 1/8th Middlesex as an officer ( he doesn't name it but that's the battalion i believe he was in ) and fought in every major battle

with it from Loos 1915 to Cambrai in 1917 when he was wounded .

Fantastic thank you