Salient Points One: Ypres Sector, 1914–18

· Cameos of the Western Front Book 1 · Pen and Sword
Ebook
192
Pages
Eligible

About this ebook

Tony Spagnoly and Ted Smith’s Salient Points One collects obscure stories of soldiers, their units, and the actions they engaged in during World War I.

Introduction by Jonathan Nicholls

Compiled together with stories of other points of interest along the old Western Front, each account in this unique history book about life in the Ypres Sector between 1914–1918 is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today.

Featured content includes: Larch Wood (Railway Cuttings) Cemetery; Second Lieutenant Keith Rae; Bellewaarde Farm; Major William Redmond; H. H. Prince Maurice of Battenberg; Major Cropper’s Craters; Sergeant Harry Combes D.C.M., R.G.A.; A Cemetery Lost; A Scottish Soldier; Along the Messines Ridge; Halloween Night 1914; A Bloodless Victory; Old Bill is Born; The Yanks are Coming; The Lost Mines of Messines; Hospitalization South of Poperinghe and Canada at Ypres.

About the author

Ted Smith is an author and historian

Rate this ebook

Tell us what you think.

Reading information

Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.