Fatal Avenue: A Traveller's History of the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders, 1346-1945 by Richard Holmes

Fatal Avenue: A Traveller's History of the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders, 1346-1945

Richard Holmes

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De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north-east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading armies have swept back and forth over this bloody terrain, and the names of battles fought here read like a d...

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