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Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youthby Paul Ham (Random House, $45)
Within the deluge of new publications marking the centenary of the Great War, Paul Ham’s Passchendaele stands out as a well-researched and sensitively written contribution. The book manages to thread individual voices, detailed descriptions of the fighting and the complicated global context into a compelling narrative.
The small Flemish town of Passchendaele was the final Allied objective
