by Richard Holmes · Jonathan Cape Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780224036009
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Fatal Avenue» is Richard Holmes's military history essay, published by Jonathan Cape Ltd in hardcover (376 pages, in English).
It combines military history with a travel guide to explore the lowland corridor northeast of Paris that Charles de Gaulle dubbed the 'fatal avenue'. Invading armies passed through this region, and battles such as Agincourt, Calais, Crécy, Verdun, Vimy, and Ypres were fought there. It alternates accounts of the campaigns with key information for visiting the sites.
Full subtitle: 'A Traveller's History of the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders, 1346-1945'. First edition from 1992; it analyzes six centuries of conflict in the region.
Recommended for enthusiasts of European military history and travel to the battlefields of northern France and Flanders.
Richard Gordon Heath Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.
Tapa blanda
