THE ROAD TO PASSCHENDAELE: The Heroic Year in Soldiers' Own Words and Photographs

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Using diaries and memoirs, and above all, original photographs taken on illegally held cameras by the soldiers themselves, this tells the story of 1917, of life both in and out of the line culminating in perhaps the most dreaded battle of them all, the Battle of Passchendaele. Over 150 rarely or never-before-seen battlefield images are used out of the author's collection of 5000? private photographs. Richard van Emden, who has written 19 WWI books, interviewed 270 veterans of the Great War for his books.