In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign
By (Author) Leon Wolff
Introduction and notes by Freddy Declerck
Unicorn Publishing Group
Uniform Press
27th November 2017
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
940.431
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 170mm, Height 235mm
Description
In Flanders Fields begins on New Year's Day 1917 and the violence which ensued; it looks at the ways in which men died and looks at the politics, putting a spotlight on the leaders, and how the campaign was conceived, sponsored and opposed.Br>Reasons for this seemingly endless onslaught are still debated today by military historians, yet in this novelisation of the infamous battle, Wolff goes some way to explain the unexplainable: how was it possible to have such slaughter on an industrial scale only one year after the Somme.
Author Bio
Leon Wolff was born as the First World War broke out in 1914, growing up in Chicago, the son of a travelling salesman. He served as a second lieutenant in the US Air Force during the Second World War. Wolff wrote four books in total, Low Level Mission which dealt with the raids on the Ploesti Oilfields in 1943, In Flanders Fields, Little Brown Brother which won the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians and Lockout the story of the Homestead Strike of 1892 and the Carnegie steel empire.
