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World War I Battlefields: A Travel Guide to the Western Front

Sites, Museums, Memorials

John Ruler, Emma Thomson (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2014
Bradt Travel Guides (Verlag)
978-1-84162-484-6 (ISBN)

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World War I Battlefields: A Travel Guide - Expert tips and itineraries for travel along the Western Front including sites in France and Belgium, maps and routes. This guide also features guided walks and site information, battlefield tours, museums, Ypres, Poperinge, Nieuwpoort, Mons, Lille, Pas-de-Calais, The Somme, Verdun, Aisne and Champagne.

The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in human history and changed the face of foreign policy and European geography forever. Despite the wealth of literature on the subject Bradt's World War I Battlefields is the only compact practical travel guide to cover both French and Belgian battlefield sites. Produced in a lightweight and portable format, the guide will cover all the main memorials and museums alongside practical information on how to book the best guided tours or find the resting place of family members lost in battle. Published to correspond with the centenary of the War's outbreak the book covers an area that received 212,701 visitors in 2012 from the UK alone.

The authors, John Ruler and Emma Thompson, are both members of the British Guild of Travel Writers and have each previously written a Bradt guide on the area.

CONTENTS

PART ONE: GENERAL INFORMATION

Introduction

Chapter 1Background information
What is the Western Front? , Historical timeline

Chapter 2Practical information
Getting there and away , Getting around , Tourist information , Battlefield tours , How to trace a missing relative

PART TWO: BELGIUM

Chapter 3Ypres and Ypres Salient
Ypres , Ypres Salient , Zonnebeke

Chapter 4Poperinge and Heuvelland
Poperinge , Heuvelland , Mesen (Messines) ,

Chapter 5Diksmuide, Veurne and Nieuwpoort
Diksmuide , Veurne , Nieuwpoort

Chapter 6Mons
Mons

PART THREE: FRANCE

Chapter 7Le Nord and Lille
Lille , Seclin , Armentières , Fromelles , Cambrai , Ors , Le Quesnoy , Maubeuge/Feignies

Chapter 8Pas-de-Calais: Arras and Lens
Arras , Around Arras , Around Lens , Escalles , Boulogne-sur-Mer , Etaples-sur-Mer , Montreuil-sur-Mer

Chapter 9The Somme
Amiens , Péronne , Around Péronne , Albert , Around Albert , Doullens , Noyelles-sur-Mer , Cantigny

Chapter 10Aisne
Laon , Around Laon , Chemin des Dames , Soissons , Saint-Quentin , Chateau-Thierry

Chapter 11Champagne region & Verdun
Reims , Verdun

Appendix 1: Further Reading

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2014
Verlagsort	Buckinghamshire
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Belgien
	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Frankreich
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
ISBN-10	1-84162-484-5 / 1841624845
ISBN-13	978-1-84162-484-6 / 9781841624846
Zustand	Neuware