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A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
A Storm in Flanders is novelist and prizewinning historian Winston Groom's gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought--and thought about--war. Groom's account of what would become the most dreaded place on earth is "a moving and oddly inspiring chronic...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
April 7th 2003
by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
(first published 2002)
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This book is about World War One. It was written by Winston Groom whom you may know better as the author of Forest Gump. Groom writes this book for Americans who know little about the first World War. As he says, most people's reference point to war (and indeed how the world has been shaped as a result for decades after) starts from World War Two.
Part of what I enjoyed about this book is how Groom gives us some pre-history. Setting the stage briefly in Europe from about the 1880's fo...more
Part of what I enjoyed about this book is how Groom gives us some pre-history. Setting the stage briefly in Europe from about the 1880's fo...more
By far one of the best books I have read in a while. We follow several different people through the war but briefly and we meet Adolf Hitler. Now I have an idea for my next vacation. This book caused me to miss more than one stop on my train.
The Great War, wiped out generations entire divisions of soldiers and yet I feel so guilty for not knowing much about this war. I had no idea how atrocious the Germans were, not that any sort of war brings out the best in people. I don't want to spoil...more
The Great War, wiped out generations entire divisions of soldiers and yet I feel so guilty for not knowing much about this war. I had no idea how atrocious the Germans were, not that any sort of war brings out the best in people. I don't want to spoil...more
I co-worker lent me this book after finding out I was a military history buff. The author also wrote 'Forest Gump' (I've only seen the movie).
The book is excellent. The attention to historical detail and bringing the whole history of World War I into the battles around Yrpes is done in a compelling way.
I learned a lot about World War I that I didn't know - like the huge tunnel mine bombs. The book also included personal stories based on letters home from the soldiers or...more
The book is excellent. The attention to historical detail and bringing the whole history of World War I into the battles around Yrpes is done in a compelling way.
I learned a lot about World War I that I didn't know - like the huge tunnel mine bombs. The book also included personal stories based on letters home from the soldiers or...more
Winston Groom's 'A Storm in Flanders', offers the reader an interesting and satisfying overview of the fighting around the Ypres Salient between 1914 and 1918. The book is 276 pages in length of which over 260 is text. This account cannot be considered comprehensive in its study of the Ypres Salient in the Great War, for that you will need to look elsewhere. However what Mr Groom does offer is a compelling look at the numerous battles fought around the Ypres Salient, including one of the most dr...more
Winston Groom's writing has evolved into well and excitingly constructed popular histories/nonfiction. This book gracefully tells the shocking story of what happened on the Ypres salient during WWI. Very accessible to non-history types and reads much like a great story.
By the author of Forrest Gump.
A very well written account of the British Army's operations in the Ypres Salient during World War I. Written from the American point of view. Grooms is an outstanding descriptive writer, and his account of trench warfare is harrowing, to say the least.
A very well written account of the British Army's operations in the Ypres Salient during World War I. Written from the American point of view. Grooms is an outstanding descriptive writer, and his account of trench warfare is harrowing, to say the least.
outstanding. this was eye opening on the horrors of war. You will never gloss over WWI andjump to WWII again in the history books. The carnage is unimaginable yet the author brings it to "life."
A great account of the fighting in around Ypres, Belgium from 1914-1918. Fascinating. Detailed, but doesn't assume too much prior knowledge. Highly recommended.
Amazing to see the "new techology" developed in WW1; but it also demonstrates the futility of war.
Quick, engaging view of the specifics of the fighting around the Ypres Salient in WWI.
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I was enthralled with this book on WW I. Truth is definitely stranger than fiction. Oddly, the same author wrote Forrest Gump. I never dreamt that I would so thoroughly enjoy a book about war, but I was utterly fascinated. I'm tempted to rattle off just a few of the amazing anecdotes from this book, but it's best to just read it yourself. Even if you're not a WW I or history buff, I can't see how this book could fail to amaze you. I couldn't stop myself from reading passages aloud and relaying t...more
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A well-written and informative book about the Ypres Salient battles during WWI. Winston Groom does an excellent job of balancing stories about individuals with the battle information and details about life in the trenches. For a detailed history, it was a very easy read. I came away with a much better understanding of the Western Front of WWI and an appreciation of the incredible bravery and heroism of the Allied forces (mostly British) who defended the region.
A fascinating and fairly easy to follow history of World War One. Ever since I discovered the 'futility of war' poems by Sassoon and Wilfred Owen many decades ago, the horrors of this war in particular have saddened me deeply. The soldiers that had to live for months and years on end in conditions so terrible it practically defies understanding.
This book by Winston Groom (he of Forrest Gump fame)is a very thought provoking and enlightening piece of work.
This book by Winston Groom (he of Forrest Gump fame)is a very thought provoking and enlightening piece of work.
This was an AMAZING book. I knew less than I even realized about WWI; now I have at least an inkling of what life was like on the Western Front. This is a must-read!
10/8/03
A very readable WWI book!
A very readable WWI book!
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is an American novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for his book Forrest Gump, which was adapted into a film in 1994. Groom was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Mobile, Alabama where he attended University Military School (now known as UMS-Wright Preparatory School). He attended the University of Alabama, where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta and the Army ROTC, and graduated in 1...more
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