WWI · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Battle of Passchendaele (1917)
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31 Jul-10 Nov 1917 — Third Ypres: three months in liquid mud for eight kilometers and a quarter-million casualties on each side. Men and mules drown in shell craters. It stands here as memory as much as strategy. Remember.
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- Site of memory
- Chapter
- WWI in 1917, the year of crisis (chapter 10 of WWI)
- Atlas
- The Great War, 1871–1923
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