Fatal Avenue by Richard Holmes
Charles de Gaulle called it "fatal avenue". He was referring to that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching from the Channel coast of Normandy in the west to the valley of the Moselle on the eastern flank, and from Paris northwards to Flanders. Over the centuries invading armies have swept back and forth over this bloody terrain, and the names of the bitter battles fought here read like a dictionary of military history: Agincourt and Arras, Bethune and Bapaume, Calais and Crecy - through to Verdun, Vimy and Ypres. Evidence of a martial past is never far away. It is a landscape speckled with military architecture from every epoch: medieval walls, Vauban's forts, ravelins and lunettes, to the concrete and cupolas of the 20th century. This book is not only a military history of Northern France and Flanders from 1337 and 1945, but also a guide to the battles and campaigns, the geography of the terrain that was fought over, the tactics that were employed by the respective armies, and the weaponry they used. The author also wrote "The World Atlas of Warfare", "Firing Line" and "Nuclear Warriors".
RICHARD HOLMES is the author of The Age of Wonder, which won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Book Critics Circle Award, was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and was one of The New York Times Book Review's Best Books of the Year in 2009. His other books include Falling Upwards, Footsteps, Sidetracks, Shelley: The Pursuit (winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize), Coleridge: Early Visions (winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award), Coleridge: Darker Reflections (an NBCC finalist), and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (winner of the James Tait Blake Prize). Holmes is an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and was awarded the OBE in 1992. He lives in Great Britain.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780712658355 |
| ISBN 10 | 0712658351 |
| Title | Fatal Avenue |
| Author | Richard Holmes |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1993-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
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