A fascinating anthology of eyewitness accounts from both the British and German perspective drawn from rare contemporary publications, documents held in archives and museums, field reports, regimental records, battalion and divisional histories. The result is a comprehensive and vivid impression of what it meant to play a part in the battle which has become synonymous with the sea of mud which characterised the fighting in Flanders. AUTHOR: Bob Carruthers is one of the UK's leading military historians and is famous in the UK for the bestselling book 'The Wehrmacht in Russia', published by Pen kSword, which topped Amazon bestseller charts in 2012. Bob is also an Emmy AwardTM winning filmmaker whose work in the form of series such as Battlefield, Line of Fire, and Weapons of War are channel staples that are shown on BBC, Channel 4, Discovery, PBS and numerous other channels around the world. 24 illustrations
