{"product_id":"passchendaele-requiem-for-doomed-youth-ham-paul2016-hardcover","title":"Passchendaele: requiem for doomed youth. Paul Ham. 2016.","description":"\u003cp\u003ePasschendaele epitomises everything most terrible about the Western Front. This battle was fought from July to November November 1917, during the worst year of the war for Allied morale: images of blackened tree stumps rising out of a field of mud, corpses of men and horses drowned in shell holes, fraught soldiers huddled in trenches awaiting the whistle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happened at Passchendaele was pure attrition, a ‘wearing down’ war at its most concentrated and ferocious. Paul Ham’s \u003cem\u003ePasschendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth \u003c\/em\u003eshows how men on both sides endured, with a very real awareness that they were being gradually, deliberately, wiped out.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book tells the story of ordinary men in the grip of a political and military power struggle that foreshadowed the destiny of the world for a century. \u003cem\u003ePasschendaele \u003c\/em\u003elays down a powerful challenge to the idea of war as an inevitable expression of the human will, and examines the culpability of governments and military commanders in a tragedy that destroyed the best part of a generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Browse Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ 9781864711448 \/ X-Large","offer_id":42316051873874,"sku":"HAM11","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2696\/2492\/files\/448E2DD9-2F29-447D-B60C-DF8A7F72F263.jpg?v=1772442883","url":"https:\/\/browsebooks.com.au\/products\/passchendaele-requiem-for-doomed-youth-ham-paul2016-hardcover","provider":"Browse Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}