Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Maps

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Belgian option and the race to the sea

2. Four armies in Flanders Fields

3. Advance to contact

4. Kindermord

5. The South

6. Army Group Fabeck

7. Nonnebosschen

Conclusion: The immortal salient

Appendix: Orders of battle

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

The first study of Ypres in forty years, written by one of the leading specialists on World War One.

About the Author

Professor Ian F W Beckett is an internationally known and widely published specialist on the British army and the First World War who has taught at both British and American universities.

Reviews

'Thorough and scholarly' Professor Sir Michael Howard in Times Literary Supplement A first rate work by one of the leading specialists on the First World War' Professor Jeremy Black in History 'Should become the standard scholarly account of First Ypres' Dr Nik Gardner in Journal of Military History 'A valuable addition to the growing library of scholarly studies of the British Army's experience on the Western Front' Professor Peter Simkins in English Historical Review 'The scholarship of the work is massively apparent on every page' Society of Friends of the National Army Museum Newsletter 'Gripping, pulse-quickening detail' Worcester Evening News