| Salient Points Three: Ypres Sector 1914-1918 Contributor(s): Smith, Ted (Author), Spangnoly, Ted (Joint Author) |
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ISBN: 0850527902 ISBN-13: 9780850527902 Publisher: Pen & Sword Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2001 Annotation: As with other books in the series, Salient Points Three covers a range of dramatic actions on a crucial sector of the Western Front in World War I. This volume covers the story of a young aristocrat serving with the Grenadier Guards, an early British tank attack on the German strongpoint of St. Julien, and the gripping story of a machine gun team besieged by the Germans in an ancient monastery. Also covered is the tragic story of a fourteen-year-old South African serving at the front and the unraveling of the legend of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry "lost platoon", said to have been found in the cloisters of St. Martin's Church in Ypres after the Armistice. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War I |
| Dewey: 940.3 |
| Series: Cameos of the Western Front |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.38" W x 8.46" (0.49 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The third in the series of a collection of stories about the men the actions and the places of interest for the battlefield visitor to the old Western Front. This book features: - A Soldier for a Year (Private David Ross); - A Very British Grenadier (Captain Pixley); - An Artist at War (Ernest Carlos); - Into Battle - Julian of the 'Ard 'Ead Julian Grenfell); - Adolf Hitler at Ypres; - Michael O'Leary V.C. The Wild Colonial Boy; - No Prisoners for The Dorsets (The Dorsetshire Regiment at Hill 60); - Tanks at St. Julien; - Corporal McBride and the 2nd Worcesters at Neuve Eglise; - Triumph and Tragedy (The 6th DCLI at Sanctuary/Zouave woods 1915) and The Five Forgotten Mines of Messines (unexploded - and four of them still there, the other 'blew' in 1955) |