Fatal Avenue
Author: Holmes, Richard
ISBN: 9781844139385
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Aug 2008
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback / softback
A unique work, combining military history and travel, studying the most fought-over area on earth.
De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north-east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading armies have swept back and forth over this bloody terrain, and the names of battles fought here read like a dictionary of military history - from Agincourt, Calais and Crecy to Verdun, Vimy and Ypres.
Fatal Avenue is both a history and a guide - a unique study of a region that has witnessed more bitter military conflict than any other area of its size on earth.
ISBN: 9781844139385
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Aug 2008
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback / softback
A unique work, combining military history and travel, studying the most fought-over area on earth.
De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north-east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading armies have swept back and forth over this bloody terrain, and the names of battles fought here read like a dictionary of military history - from Agincourt, Calais and Crecy to Verdun, Vimy and Ypres.
Fatal Avenue is both a history and a guide - a unique study of a region that has witnessed more bitter military conflict than any other area of its size on earth.
