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100 1 _aHOLMES Richard
245 0 _aFatal avenue:
_ba traveller's history of the battlefields of Northern France and Flanders 1346-1945
260 _aLondon:
_bPimlico,
_c1993
300 _a376p.
520 _aDe Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north east of Paris. The names of battles fought here read like a dictionary of military history. This book is both a history and a guide of a region that has witnessed more bitter military conflict than any other area of its size on earth.
650 _aSECOND WORLD WAR
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_sY
999 _c14874
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