- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Books (Jun 24 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1844139387
- ISBN-13: 978-1844139385
- Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 3.7 x 19.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 440 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #589,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“Enthralling information on everything from archery to fortification, and from strategy to ecology . . . Holmes presents each battle plan, its weapons, its fighting techniques, its architecture in the shape of forts, redoubts, trenches, its management, its results, and then takes the reader through the terrain as it exists today.”
–Ronald Blythe
“Exceedingly well written . . . Richard Holmes is equally sure-footed when dealing with the human element, writing with equal conviction about Joan of Arc, Marlborough, Napoleon, Haig, Foch, Ludendorff, Montgomery, Eisenhower and many others.”
–Martin Fagge
–Ronald Blythe
“Exceedingly well written . . . Richard Holmes is equally sure-footed when dealing with the human element, writing with equal conviction about Joan of Arc, Marlborough, Napoleon, Haig, Foch, Ludendorff, Montgomery, Eisenhower and many others.”
–Martin Fagge
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A unique work combining military history and travel, which studies 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.
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.
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