Places
Ypres
A Belgian city in West Flanders, called Wipers by British troops, which was the center of the Battles of Ypres between German and Allied forces. It was bombarded throughout much of the war, and its Cloth Hall was later rebuilt. The salient around it was a big part of the Western Front.
Mentioned in
- Chapter III The War of Movement Overview§8 The Aisne, the Race to the Sea and First Ypres§10 The Christmas Truce and the Cost of 1914
- Chapter IV Deadlock Overview§3 Second Ypres and the First Gas Attack
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions Overview§5 Messines and Passchendaele§8 Cambrai: The Tanks Break Through, and Back
- Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking §10 Remembering the Dead, and the Road to 1939
- Chapter IX In the Trenches Overview§3 No Man's Land: Patrols, Raids and Wiring Parties§6 Wounds and the Chain of Evacuation§8 Letters, Leave, Faith and Laughter§9 Who the Soldiers Were
- Chapter X The Machinery of War Overview§3 Poison Gas: The Fear and the Figures§5 Mining and Tunnelling: The War Beneath§9 Flames, Grenades, Mortars and Clubs
- Chapter XII The Home Fronts §9 Culture, Art and the Making of Memory
- Chapter XIII A World on Fire §6 The Empires' Soldiers