Reclaiming the Salient: Resurrecting the Great War Battlegrounds of Flanders Fields Steward Roger
Reclaiming the Salient: Resurrecting the Great War Battlegrounds of Flanders Fields Steward Roger By the end of the Great War, the destruction of the Ypres Salient was complete. This once proud and…
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Reclaiming the Salient: Resurrecting the Great War Battlegrounds of Flanders Fields Steward Roger
By the end of the Great War, the destruction of the Ypres Salient was complete. This once proud and prosperous medieval city had been reduced to rubble by years of German artillery fire.Such was the level of destruction it is said that in 1919, a man on horseback had an unrestricted view from one corner of the city to the other. The fabled Flanders Fields were devastated, hardly a building or tree was left standing in the battlefield areas that surrounded the city of Ypres.
The landscape had been transformed from its peacetime agricultural scene to one of death and horror. The rural areas surrounding the city faired no better with the armies firing millions of artillery shells in an area of roughly 100 square miles. The Ypres Salient was now a lunar surface of deep mud and millions of flooded shell holes whose murky depths concealed the horrors which lay beneath their
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