A new addition to Oxford’s “Great Battles” series, Ypres is not a detailed account of the several protracted battles for that famed Belgian city. Rather, it is an exploration of the evolution of “the ...
Prof. Cassar (Eastern Michigan) gives us a rather analytical, well written, detailed account of British and Canadian troops during Second Ypres (Apr. 21-May 25, 1915), which saw the first use of ...
View A field of great sorrow and of greater glory The battle ground of Ypres - Visiting the old battlefields of the Western Front, the scene by the ruined cloth hall of Ypres by Fortunino Matania on ...
They came in their uniforms or their Sunday best, bearing wreaths of cloth poppies and handwritten notes for fallen family members and countrymen, to be laid upon marble steps, to be read like poems ...
Next week, Tuesday the 11th of November, marks a day of great significance to western civilization. This is Armistice Day, the day when the guns fell silent and World War I came to an end. Known today ...
After the Second Battle of Ypres, when poison gas floated down into the trenches of World War I for the first time, a Canadian soldier saw something surprisingly hopeful. In the rolling fields nearby, ...
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