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
Copyright Notice