false 186200 5 Novelist Winston Groom (<i>Forrest Gump</i>) brings his considerable skills as a storyteller and researcher to this gory tour of "the most notorious and dreaded place in all of the First World War, probably of any war in history." The Ypres salient, a small, hilly section of Belgium, witnessed the wholesale destruction of the old British professional army, "the Old Contemptibles"; it was the place where the great armies of England, France, and Germany were locked in a dance of death for four years, where "more than a million soldiers were shot, bayoneted, bludgeoned, bombed, grenaded, gassed, incinerated by flamethrowers, drowned in shell craters, smothered by caved-in trenches, obliterated by underground mines, or, more often than not, blown to pieces by artillery shells." Extraordinary moments occurred in that vast hell, including the renowned Christmas truce of 1914, when the armies set aside the killing for a few short hours, crossed the trenches, and celebrated together. But mostly the scenery was unbeautiful mud and blood, the makings of Groom's chilling canvas, one populated by the famed generals and ordinary soldiers who met in Flanders fields. The stuff of Groom's story will be familiar to readers of Liddell Hart, Keegan, and other scholars, and readers new to the history of the Great War will find it a memorable introduction. <I>--Gregory McNamee</I> 179992 2002 A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front total:38|5:19|4:15|3:3|2:1|1:0| 38 166 58 9 4 0 false false Sat Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu May 21 11:06:07 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 11:08:15 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Mon Jun 22 21:44:02 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 23:04:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 17:07:55 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 17:16:12 -0700 2009
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 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 11:23:57 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 12:46:36 -0700 2009
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.]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat May 09 12:50:44 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 12:52:07 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jan 27 11:56:04 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 09:39:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Fri Mar 30 08:34:13 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 30 08:50:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 06:44:44 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 20 03:58:52 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Nov 20 17:56:09 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 17:56:43 -0800 2007 A very readable WWI book!]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 09 08:09:21 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 08:09:21 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 07 16:38:25 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 16:38:25 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Oct 02 16:41:05 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 08:42:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 08 17:54:54 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 17:54:54 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Aug 16 15:58:02 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 15:58:02 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jul 28 12:36:23 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 12:36:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 27 21:42:03 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 05:58:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 27 17:17:02 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 17:17:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 08 21:15:53 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 11:24:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 05 12:49:05 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 12:49:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 15 05:26:04 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 05:26:06 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=186200