CONTENTS

Cover

About the Book

Title Page

List of Maps

Dedication

Introduction

1 Servants of Attrition

2 The Human Factor

3 Death by Water

4 Knights and Pawns

5 The Bloody Salient

6 The Mines of Messines

7 A Fatal Delay

8 August 1917

9 Those Who Walked Beside You

10 September 1917

11 Odyssey of the Wounded

12 The Cruellest Month

13 The Face of Fear

14 Passchendaele Ridge

15 The Burial of the Dead

16 From the Jaws of Defeat

17 What the Living Said

Epilogue Requiem for Doomed Youth

Appendix 1 Casualty Figures

Appendix 2 A Comparison of Manpower Between the British and Dominion Armies, 1917

Appendix 3 Lord Kitchener’s Special Instructions to (then) General Sir Douglas Haig, 28 December 1915

Appendix 4 Hierarchy of Combat Ranks: Britain (and Dominions), Germany and France

Appendix 5 Skeleton Order of Battle, Third Ypres

Appendix 6 Haig’s Case for the Flanders Offensive, Submitted to the War Cabinet 17 June 1917

Appendix 7 Siegfried Sassoon’s Letter of Protest Against the War and Extract from Commons Debate

Appendix 8 Statement of British and German Wastage in Flanders

Appendix 9 Debate on Allied Casualties and Decision Not to Publish Totals

Notes and References

Bibliography

Index of Searchable Terms

Picture Section

Acknowledgements

About the Author

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