| Collection type | Library |
|---|---|
| Author | Ham, Paul, author.; Freile, Alicia, illustrator.; |
| Call Number | 940.431 H198p |
| Document type | Monograph |
| Year | 2016. 016 |
| Pagination | xvii, 565 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 24 c |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Australia, |
| Note | "A William Heinemann book" - publication details. Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-542) and index. This book epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. What happened at Passchendaele was the expression of the wearing-down war, the war of pure attrition at its most spectacular and ferocious. This four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the war: blackened tree stumps rising out of a field of mud, corpses of men and horses drowned in shell holes, terrified soldiers huddled in trenches awaiting the whistle. This book tells the story of ordinary men in the grip of a political and military power struggle that determined their fate and has foreshadowed the destiny of the world for a century. This book lays down a powerful challenge to the idea of war as an inevitable expression of the human will, and examines the culpability of governments and military commanders in a catastrophe that destroyed the best part of a generation. |
| Place made | North Sydney, NSW |
Passchendaele : requiem for doomed youth / Paul Ham.
Shelf Items
| Barcode | Call Suffix | Volume | Part | Year | Location | Status |
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| AWM088748 | 940.431 H198p | PUD000110 | On Shelf | |||
| AWM085949 | 940.431 H198p | Stacks | On Shelf |