The Battle of Cambrai - The Battlefields Today

by Ian J. Sanders

Publisher: Ian Sanders
Copyright: © 2006  Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
  • Paperback book $18.13

Printed: 156 pages, 8.5" x 11", perfect binding, black and white interior ink

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The Cambrai battlefields are largely ignored in favour of the more well known areas of the Somme and Ypres and consequently the woods and fields yield some surprising discoveries.

Photographed 89 years to the week of the 1917 battle, this large format collection of haunting and evocative images show how the battlefields look today.

The book contains photos of many well preserved sites often on private land and not generally accessible to the public, the remote cemeteries that dot the area, as well as some fascinating "then and now" comparisons.

This is the Black and white edition of The Battle of Cambrai - Images of a Forgotten Battlefield. Visit Cambrai - The Battlefields Today for more information.


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Fascinating Addition to the Battle of Cambrai Bookshelf
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2 Jan 2007 (updated 2 Jan 2007)
I bought this book as a companion to a book I already own "Cambrai: Hindenburg Line" by Jack Horsfall.

The author visits many of the locations in that book, but does bring a far fresher perspective to the locations photographing them from more imaginative angles and in more dramatic lighting.

The section on the cemeteries is particularly moving, so many young men, but beautifully tended by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

A great book for anyone's World War 1 library and a valuable addition to the history of a curiously neglected battle.

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