# Passchendaele

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- Book: [Passchendaele](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-lloyd/passchendaele) ([Passchendaele.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-lloyd/passchendaele.md))
- Authors: [Nick Lloyd](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-lloyd)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 12 h 28 min
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-351-5
- Published: 2017-10-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 12 h 28 min

## Description

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Passchendaele by Nick Lloyd, read by Mark Elstob. Between July and November 1917, in a small corner of Belgium, more than 500,000 men were killed or maimed, gassed or drowned - and many of the bodies were never found. The Ypres offensive represents the modern impression of the First World War: splintered trees, water-filled craters, muddy shell-holes. The climax was one of the worst battles of both world wars: Passchendaele. The village fell eventually, only for the whole offensive to be called off. But, as Nick Lloyd shows, notably through previously unexamined German documents, it put the Allies nearer to a major turning point in the war than we have ever imagined.