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Behind the lines : WWI's little-known story of German occupation, Belgian resistance, and the band of Yanks who helped save millions from starvation : beginnings, 1914
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ISBN: 9780990689300 9780990689317 0990689301 099068931X Year: 2014 Publisher: Denver Milbrown Press


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The battlefield of imperishable memory : Passchendaele and the Anzac legend
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ISBN: 9781922464064 1922464066 Year: 2021 Publisher: Clayton, Victoria Monash University Publishing

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The Ypres salient 'was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minions', wrote one returned serviceman after the First World War. Few who fought in the infamous third battle of Ypres -- now known as Passchendaele -- in 1917 would have disagreed. All five of the Australian Imperial Force's (AIF) infantry divisions were engaged in this bloody campaign. Despite early successes, their attacks floundered in front of the devastated Belgian village of Passchendaele when autumn rains drenched the battlefield, turning it into an immense quagmire. By the time the AIF withdrew, it had suffered over 38,000 casualties, including 10,000 dead, far outweighing Australian losses in any other Great War campaign. Given the extent of their sacrifices, the Australians' exploits in Belgium ought to be well known in a nation that has fervently commemorated its involvement in the First World War. Yet, Passchendaele occupies an ambiguous place in Australian collective memory. Tracing the commemorative work of official and non-official agents -- including that of C.E.W. Bean; the Australian War Memorial; returned soldiers; battlefield pilgrims; and, more recently, the Department of Veterans' Affairs, working in collaboration with Belgian locals -- The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory explores why these battles became, and still remain, peripheral to the dominant First World War narrative in Australia: the Anzac legend


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The Great War seen from the air : in Flanders fields, 1914 - 1918.
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ISBN: 9780300196580 030019658X Year: 2013 Publisher: New Haven Yale university press

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Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over the battlefields of the Great War have survived in archives throughout Europe, Australia and the United States. These pictures present the war from a unique perspective, clearly showing the developing trench system, artillery batteries, bunkers, railway lines, airfields, medical evacuation routes and more. They reveal the expanding war in Flanders Fields as the hostilities spread, kilometre by kilometre, devastating the environment and resulting in the complete destruction of the landscape at the front. This illuminating volume, the results of a collaboration between the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, the Imperial War Museum, London, and the Royal Army Museum, Brussels, features hundreds of photographic case studies, illustrating in unprecedented detail the physical extent of World War I and the shocking environmental damage it left in its wake. Supplementing aerial images with maps, documents and photographs taken from the ground, this one-of-a-kind visual record stands as an important contribution to World War I history, revealing the wartime landscape of Flanders Fields as rarely seen before.


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Au jour le jour avec un soldat de 14-18 : les carnets du sergent des grenadiers Gustave Groleau
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ISBN: 9782930469256 2930469250 Year: 2009 Publisher: Morlanwelz Musée royal de Mariemont = Koninklijk Museum van Mariemont


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Les survivants du Boyau de la mort : lettres de deux jeunes Wallons en 14-18
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ISBN: 9052018138 9789052018133 Year: 1998 Volume: *5 Publisher: Bruxelles Presses interuniversitaires européennes


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Mourir à Bertrix : le sacrifice des régiments du Sud-Ouest, 22 août 1914
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ISBN: 9782708905429 2708905422 Year: 2014 Publisher: Toulouse Editions Privat


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1914 : de Duitsers komen : de moordende begindagen van de Eerste Wereldoorlog in België.
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ISBN: 9789020988222 9020988220 Year: 2010 Publisher: Tielt Lannoo

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Dutch summary: 4 augustus 1914: Duitsland valt België binnen in de hoop zo een snelle doorgang naar Frankrijk te forceren. Het kleine en slecht uitgeruste Belgische leger levert echter meer weerstand dan verwacht. De Eerste Wereldoorlog is voor velen synoniem geworden met het IJzerfront. Weinigen weten echter wat er voorafging aan die loopgravenoorlog. Dirk Van Thuyne reconstrueert deze vergeten periode aan de hand van authentieke getuigenissen en dagboekfragmenten. Vanuit een originele invalshoek, met veel aandacht voor persoonlijke verhalen, schetst hij de moordende begindagen van de Eerste Wereldoorlog.

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