A Storm in Flanders - by Winston Groom (Paperback)

About the Book

"A Storm in Flanders" is novelist and prizewinning historian Groom's gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought--and thought about--war. 16-pages of illustrations.

Book Synopsis

A Storm in Flanders is novelist and prizewinning historian Winston Groom's gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought -- and thought about -- war. In 1914, Germany launched an invasion of France through neutral Belgium -- and brought the wrath of the world upon itself. Ypres became a place of horror, heroism, and terrifying new tactics and technologies: poison gas, tanks, mines, air strikes, and the unspeakable misery of trench warfare. Drawing on the journals of the men and women who were there, Winston Groom has penned a breathtaking drama of politics, strategy, and the human heart.

Review Quotes

"A dramatic, thoughtful, and extremely humanistic treatment of this heartbreaking chapter in early twentieth-century history."

"At a time when patriotizm is strong among Americans, it would be good to read this entertaining and instructive narrative."

"This is a storyteller's narrative of handy size....Groom is very good at describing the constant terrors of this species of warfare."