Battle Lines: Ypres - Nieuwpoort to Ploegsteert

Walking, cycling and driving guide to the Ypres Salient and all the nearby Great War sites. Gives visitors the chance to choose their itineraries and explore the battlefields at their own pace. Describes what can be seen and what happened in each historic place. Packed with practical information and vivid detail.

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Battle Lines Ypres, the first volume in Pen & Sword's new series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor to the Ypres Salient and the battlefields of Belgium. Many of the most famous - and most memorable - Great War sites are featured here. Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take visitors over a series of routes that can be walked or biked or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred in each place in vivid detail. They describe what happened, where it happened, and why, and who was involved, and point out the sights that remain there for the visitor to see. Their accounts give a fascinating insight into the landscape of the front line and the acts of war that took place there a century ago.