Sparky53 Posted 8 January , 2006 Share Posted 8 January , 2006 THis book came up on my recommendations from Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk You can search inside the contents etc online Passchendaele: The Untold Story (Yale Nota Bene S.) Robin Prior, Trevor Wilson In the search engine should find it for Jane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 8 January , 2006 Share Posted 8 January , 2006 THis book came up on my recommendations from Amazon ............... Jane Read it and liked it. I have my reservations on some of their conclusions but certainly an essential read for anyone interested in Ypres or Passchendaele. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyHollinger Posted 10 January , 2006 Share Posted 10 January , 2006 Read it, found it to be an argument that artillery was the most important aspect of the military model used in the Salient. No new news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyHollinger Posted 10 January , 2006 Share Posted 10 January , 2006 Read it, found it to be an argument that artillery was the most important aspect of the military model used in the Salient. No new news. Read it, found it to be an argument that artillery was the most important aspect of the military model used in the Salient. No new news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMcNay Posted 11 January , 2006 Share Posted 11 January , 2006 Andy, have you read it and found it to be an argument that artillery was the most important aspect of the military model used in the Salient? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart150 Posted 6 August , 2006 Share Posted 6 August , 2006 For me, this and Wolff's In Flanders Fields are the two essential books on Passchendaele. None of the others I've read come anywhere near. Wolff's book of 40 years ago relates how the War Cabinet after expressing lots of doubts eventually said to Haig in July 1917: All right, you can have your Ypres campaign but only on this condition: if it doesn't go well we reserve the right to close it down. Prior and Wilson have now looked into the archives of the War Cabinet and found that, once the campaign started, the War Cabinet never made any serious attempt to monitor progress, and never made any explicit decisions on whether to continue the campaign or to close it down. They just spent their time on ill-focussed discussions of possible campaigns in Italy and Turkey. A clearer example of rubbish decision-making one could scarcely hope to find! Prior and Wilson is essential reading! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyHollinger Posted 7 August , 2006 Share Posted 7 August , 2006 Read it, found it to be an argument that artillery was the most important aspect of the military model used in the Salient. No new news. Read it, found it to be an argument that artillery was the most important aspect of the military model used in the Salient. No new news. No wonder Chris demoted me back to 975 when I WAS over 1K ... BTW ... the author says Artillery was the most important aspect of the military model used in the salient.! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMcNay Posted 7 August , 2006 Share Posted 7 August , 2006 I think I read that somewhere.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audax Posted 29 August , 2006 Share Posted 29 August , 2006 In their introduction to 'Passchendaele - the untold story' Prior and Wilson write 'If we ignore some recent pot-boilers on Passchendaele (like the work on which referred early on, to... Helmuth and Moltke', and then went on steadily downhill),' What were the titles of these potboilers and which one in particular features Helmuth and Moltke' I ask this so I don't make the mistake of paying good money for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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