Passchendaele – Lyn Macdonald

The third battle of Ypres culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele was one of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. A million Tommies Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in the summer of 1917 mostly raw young troops keen to do their bit for King and Country.