Other Wars
Subtitle: The Experience and Memory of the First World War in the Middle East and Macedonia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781108479004
Subjects: World history
Description: "To be sure, all soldiers, on all fronts, in all armies, suffered hardships during the First World War. British and Dominion soldiers on the Western Front were faced with their own set of harsh environmental and combat conditions. Water-logged, muddy trenches in Flanders, most notably at Ypres, became one of the war's defining features. Mud was symbolic of the war's futility. Winters on the Western Front were bitterly cold. The winter of 1916-17 was especially bad"--