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Fatal Avenue: A Traveller's History Northern France and Flanders 1346-1945
Fatal Avenue A Traveller's History Northern France and Flanders 1346-1945 Author:Richard Holmes 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 fou... more »ght 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.« less