Fields of Memory : A Testimony to the Great War

by Roze, Anne; Foley, John; Rouaud, Jean; Foley, John

• ISBN13: 9780304353248
• ISBN10: 0304353248
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Octopus Pub Group
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Summary

Anyone who tours the famous battlefields of 1914-1918 finds that most traces of the fighting have disappeared. An expert on World War One teams with a battle photographer to uncover thousands of these lost details. Hundreds of full-color, oversized photos dramatize what once were bloody landscapes. Then close-ups detail the all but invisible bullet marks, tank tracks, and rusty relics of bunkers, craters, fortifications, and tunnels -- from the Marne, Flanders, and the Argonne, to Artois, Verdun, and Ypres.

Table of Contents

Preface	6	(2)
Chronology	8	(1)
Introduction	9	(4)
1914	13	(70)
The Opening Shots	19	(5)
The Battle of the Frontiers	24	(3)
The Invasion of Belgium	27	(4)
The Retreat	31	(2)
The Battle of the Marne	33	(8)
The German Withdrawal	41	(7)
The Race to the Sea	48	(6)
The War in Flanders	54	(8)
Stalemate	62	(21)
1915	83	(60)
Flanders	86	(6)
The Vosges	92	(10)
The Heights of the Meuse	102	(1)
The Eparges	103	(4)
The Argonne	107	(6)
Vauquois	113	(3)
Artois	116	(9)
Champagne	125	(5)
Life at the Front	130	(13)
1916	143	(42)
Verdun	144	(17)
The Somme	161	(24)
1917	185	(28)
Chemin des Dames	190	(14)
Ypres	204	(9)
1918	213	(13)
The Armistice	225	(1)
Conclusion	226	(4)
Bibliography	230	(1)
Index	231