LEADER 03319nam 22004935 450 001 9910136995303321 005 20230808194204.0 010 $a0-300-22222-X 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300222227 035 $a(CKB)3710000000748726 035 $a(EBL)4585779 035 $a(OCoLC)953660778 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4585779 035 $a(DE-B1597)540401 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300222227 035 $a(OCoLC)1149396670 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000748726 100 $a20200406h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPasschendaele $eThe Untold Story; Third Edition /$fRobin Prior, Trevor Wilson 205 $aNew Edition 210 1$aNew Haven, CT : $cYale University Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (293 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-22121-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tMaps -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIntroduction to the Third Edition -- $tIntroduction to the Second Edition -- $tIntroduction -- $tI. Setting the Scene -- $tII. Initiation -- $tIII. Gough -- $tIV. Plumer -- $tV. Political Interlude (i) -- $tVI. The Lower Depths -- $tVII. Political Interlude (ii) -- $tNotes -- $tNote on Sources -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aNo conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gains made by the Allies in four desperate months were won back by Germany in only three days the following March. The devastation at Passchendaele, the authors argue, was neither inevitable nor inescapable; perhaps it was not necessary at all. Using a substantial archive of official and private records, much of which has never been previously consulted, Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior provide the fullest account of the campaign ever published. The book examines the political dimension at a level which has hitherto been absent from accounts of ";Third Ypres."; It establishes what did occur, the options for alternative action, and the fundamental responsibility for the carnage. Prior and Wilson consider the shifting ambitions and stratagems of the high command, examine the logistics of war, and assess what the available manpower, weaponry, technology, and intelligence could realistically have hoped to achieve. And, most powerfully of all, they explore the experience of the soldiers in the light-whether they knew it or not-of what would never be accomplished. 606 $aYpres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917 615 0$aYpres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917. 676 $a940.431 700 $aPrior$b Robin, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0242548 702 $aWilson$b Trevor, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136995303321 996 $aPasschendaele$93413826 997 $aUNINA