In Flanders Flooded Fields

Author: Pul > Paul Van  

Publisher: Pen and Sword‎

Publication year: 2007

E-ISBN: 9781783834990

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781844154920

Subject: K History and Geography

Keyword: 历史、地理

Language: ENG

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Description

In October 1914 four armies were converging on Dunkirk. While France was preparing to defend its main Channel port, the Germans were determined to take it while the British were busy using it. Caught in the middle was the Belgian Army. Belgium was almost totally overrun, safe for a small strip of land near the Pas-de-Calais.This is the story of what happened between Antwerp and Dunkirk that fateful month and how the King of the Belgians safeguarded the independence of his small nation from its all-powerful neighbours.Contains 25 custom-made maps, several drawings and 138 seldom seen photographs.

Chapter

Chapter II Into the unknown

Chapter III Towards the west

Chapter IV To leave or not to lave

Chapter V Jacta est alea

Chapter VI The generals come to town

Chapter VII The battle for the right bank

Chapter VIII Flooding the creek

Chapter IX The Tervaete debacle

Chapter X The railway embankment

Chapter XI Nieuport, a nautical knot

Chapter XII The impending collapse

Chapter XIII At the Spanish Lock

Chapter XIV The bargee is a daredevil

Chapter XV The final rumble in Ramscappelle

Chapter XVI After the battle

Chapter XVII Questions that still fascinate

Appendix I The elusive keeper of the locks

Appendix II Roads & Bridges mysteries

Appendix III A royal treatment

Appendix IV German ignorance

Appendix V Other Belgian floods in 1914

Bibliography

Index

General

Maps

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