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Passchendaele

The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917

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Passchendaele

Written by: Lyn Macdonald
Narrated by: Alison Dowling
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Four years of war turned Ypres into a ghost town. Not a leaf grew on a tree. Scarcely one stone stood upon another. From the battered ramparts the eye swept clean across a field of rubble to the swamp-lands beyond....

The Third Battle of Ypres, ending in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of the most appalling campaigns in the history of warfare. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in summer of 1917, mostly raw young troops keen to do their bit for king and country. This book tells their tale of mounting disillusion amid mud, terror and increasingly desperate attacks, yet it is also a story of immense courage, comradeship, high spirits and hope.

In Passchendaele, Lyn Macdonald lets more than 600 soldiers speak for themselves. In doing so, she portrays events from the only point of view that really matters.

©2013 Lyn Macdonald (P)2020 Penguin Audio
Europe Wars & Conflicts
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The story is great but I would recommend just getting a physical copy. The narration of this book is like nails on a chalk board in a lot of sections and it’s impossible to follow because you just want to tune her voice out

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