Author: Paul Reed Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 0850526175 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
Following on from Walking on the Somme, Reed has produced this remarkable voyage around the Ypres Salient, which saw some of the most memorable campaigns of WW1. Illustrated throughout, this book gives an insight for visitors and armchair travellers.
Author: Paul Reed Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1526709422 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 401
Book Description
The medieval city of Ypres will forever be associated with the Great War, especially by the British. From 1914 to 1918 it was the key strong point in the northern sector of the Western Front, and the epic story of its defense has taken on almost legendary status. The city and the surrounding battlefields are also among the most visited sites on the Western Front, and Paul Reeds walking guide is an essential travellng companion for anyone who is eager to explore them either on foot, by bike or by car. His classic book, first published as Walking the Salient over ten years ago, is the result of a lifetimes research into the battles for Ypres and the Flemish landscape over which they were fought. He guides the walker to all the key locations Ypres itself, Yser, Sanctuary Wood, Bellewaarde Ridge, Zillebeke, Hill 60, Passchendaele, Messines, Kemmel and Ploegsteert are all covered. There are walks to notable sites behind the lines, around Poperinghe, Vlamertinghe and Brandhoek. And, for this second edition which he has revised, updated and expanded, he has provided new photographs and included two entirely new walks covering the Langemarck and Potijze areas. Walking Ypres brings the visitor not only to the places where the armies clashed but to the landscape of monuments, cemeteries and villages that make the Ypres battlefields among the most memorable sites of the Great War.
Author: Ian Northcott Publisher: ISBN: 9781693104046 Category : Languages : en Pages : 40
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This guide is the companion book to the joint Mercian Nordic Walking and Baxter's Battlefield Tours trip to Nordic Walking The Ypres Salient tour. The idea was born when Ian Northcott BEM and Stuart Baxter wanted to fuse together fitness and history to offer a new dimension to visiting the battlefields.The guide is intended to help anyone attending Ypres to get the most out of their visit enabling them to walk the whole of the Ypres Salient in two days whilst directing them to sites of interest.
Author: Ian Northcott Publisher: ISBN: 9781698223599 Category : Languages : en Pages : 58
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This is the companion guide to the Mercian Nordic Walking & Baxter's Battlefield Tours "Nordic Walking The Western Front". It can be used independently but you would need to source your own maps. The idea of combining fitness with walking the battlefields was conceived when Stuart Baxter and Ian Northcott BEM wanted to create a tour that fused fitness and history and help to keep the memories alive.
Author: Elizabeth T. Gray Jr Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811229254 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 121
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A riveting lyrical constellation centered on the Battle of Passchendaele in Flanders Fields and tibetan protective magic In the foreword to her book-length poem, Salient, Elizabeth Gray writes, “This work began by juxtaposing two obsessions of mine that took root in the late 1960s: the Battle of Passchendaele, fought by the British Army in Flanders in late 1917, and the chöd ritual, the core ‘severance’ practice of a lineage founded by Machik Lapdrön, the great twelfth-century female Tibetan Buddhist saint.” Over the course of several decades, Gray tracked the contours and traces of the Ypres Salient, walking the haunted battlefield ground of the contemporary landscape with campaign maps in hand, reading “not only history, poetry, and fiction, but also unit diaries; contemporary reports and individual accounts; survey information and maps of all kinds; treatises on aerial photography and artillery tactics; and manuals on field engineering and tactical planning.” Out of this material, through a process of collage, convergence, and ritual chöd visualization, Gray has composed a spare, fascinating lyrical engagement with The Missing, in shell hole and curved trench, by way of amulets and obstacles. What is salient rises from the secret signs in song, like a blessing, protected from harm.
Author: Dominiek Dendooven Publisher: ISBN: 9781913491048 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
During the First World War the old medieval City of Ypres was the centre of one of the most notorious battlefields of war: the Ypres Salient. As early as 22 November 1914, the most famous monuments of the town, the Cloth Hall and St Martin's Church, were ablaze. Over the following four years, the entire town centre would be wiped off the map. In the winter of 1918-1919, a man on a horse was able to look right across the town. There remained just a few houses more or less still upright here and there. During the war, the whole population of Ypres fled or, from May 1915, was forcibly evacuated. But the first residents were already returning several weeks before the armistice. Those willing to return found themselves living in a totally destroyed town where all but nothing remained. They used fragments of the debris and abandoned war machinery to build their first homes.Ten years after the armistice, it looked like the town had never been witness to any war. Practically all houses had been rebuilt. Today Ypres is generally considered one of the best examples of post-conflict reconstruction. Full of stories of resilience and regeneration, this walk - which lasts about 2 hours - takes you by the most typical examples of Ypres' post-war architecture, but also shows the most striking deviations.
Author: Tonie Holt Publisher: ISBN: 9780951130063 Category : Languages : en Pages : 40
Book Description
Three detailed driving itineraries, four walks and a history of the Yp res Salient are provided in this guide, where so many perished during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. It introduces readers to the places that still exist from that time, as well as including map references and a full index. This book has been designed to be used in conjunction with Major and Mrs Holt's Battle Map of the Ypres Salient.
Author: Major Holt Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 0850525519 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
This is the most complete guide to the First World War Battlefield of Ypres that has ever been published. Tonie and Valmai Holt, have condensed the knowledge gained from almost a quarter of a century of researching, writing about, visiting and conducting groups around Ypres into this remarkable book. Here are concise descriptions of the military elements of the battles woven into a kaleidoscope of human, literary and travel information. There are recommended, timed itineraries, in each itinerary representing one day's travelling. Every stop on the routes has an accompanying description and often a tale of heroic or tragic action.Memorials large and small, private and official, sites of memorable conflict, the resting places of personalities of note - they are all here and joined together by a sympathetic and understanding commentary that gives the reader a sensitivity toward the events of 1914-1918 that can only be matched by visiting the battlefield itself. This is a guide book written by people who, because they have been directly involved in taking tours themselves, know the form and type of information that best serves the visitor to the battlefield. NEW, FULLY UPDATED EDITION PACKAGED WITH A FREE, FULL COLOUR FOLD-OUT MAP WORTH '3.99
Author: Jon Cooksey Publisher: Casemate Publishers ISBN: 1783034041 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 415
Book Description
Battle Lines Ypres, the first volume in Pen & Swords new series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor to the Ypres Salient and the battlefields of Belgium. Many of the most famous - and most memorable - Great War sites are featured here. Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take visitors over a series of routes that can be walked, biked, or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred in each place in vivid detail. They describe what happened, where it happened, and why, and who was involved, and point out the sights that remain there for the visitor to see. Their accounts give a fascinating insight into the landscape of the front line and the acts of war that took place there a century ago.
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