Roger Steward

Broschiertes Buch

Reclaiming the Salient

Resurrecting the Great War Battlegrounds of Flanders Fields

Beschreibung

The end of the First World War saw the fields of Flanders contaminated by incalculable amounts of unexploded munitions and thousands of rotting corpses still exposed on the old battlefields. This is the story of how the battlefields of Belgium were, and still are, being cleared of the legacy of the Great War.

Autor

Roger Steward is an experienced and well respected battlefield historian residing in Ypres, Belgium. Having accompanied thousands of visitors in the Ypres Salient over the last decade Roger's in-depth knowledge of the area spans from the years of the Great War to the present day. Roger has been interviewed on Sky News and BBC Radio and has also assisted BBC researchers for their programming in advance of the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele. In 2021, Roger wrote the acclaimed 'Studentenfriedhof to Soldatenfriedhof, A History of Langemark German Cemetery and self-guided tour'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Helion & Company
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781915113672
• ISBN-10: 1915113679
• Artikelnr.: 63513485