In Flanders Field: The 1917 Campaign

First published in 1958, this military history examines the British campaign in Flanders in 1917, from the mines at Messines through the long offensive toward Passchendaele. Wolff follows Sir Douglas Haig's plan to break the German line in the Ypres salient, the weather and the mud that stalled the attacks, and the arguments between the army command and Lloyd George's government over whether the offensive should continue. He describes the experience of British, Anzac, and Canadian troops in the flooded ground and the scale of the losses. The book is a campaign study of one year on the Western Front, not a biography of Haig and not a general history of the war.

Bound in grey-green cloth illustrated by a wrap-around sepia photo of Flanders. Flecked light-brown slipcase.