Download or read book Passchendaele 1917 written by Lee Ingelbrecht and published by Lannoo Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914 the area around Ypres was a verdant landscape thick with vegetation, formed and transformed both by nature and human intervention. Before the First World War began, the landscape had already been the setting for multiple battles and military manoeuvres, and was known as 'the Battlefield of Europe'. In 'Passchendaele 1917' Lee Ingelbreght approaches the Great War and the Battle of Passchendaele from a unique angle. Why was the Westhoek such a popular place to fight wars, and what traces have all those military conflicts left on this landscape? AUTHOR: Lee Ingelbreght has a postgraduate degree in landscape development. Since 2010 he has been a scientific officer at the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917. He is responsible for the project The Legacy of Passchendaele. SELLING POINTS: * Commemorates the centennial anniversary of the most terrible battles of the First World War * Examines the 'Battlefield of Europe' from a fresh ecocritical perspective * Contains reports from eyewitnesses, and dozens of images of the landscape before, during, and after the war 100 colour, 100 b/w