In A Flanders Field: A Territorial Battalion at Ypres, October 1917

An exploration of stories from Joe Waite and the lives of 64 fallen comrades during the Third Battle of Ypres enduring the impact of war.

Written neither as a conventional biography or battalion history, this work centres on the remarkable life of Joe Waite, a boy soldier of the Great War. Though, in telling his story, the names and lives of 64 of his fallen comrades are also revealed. All were lost in just one month of fighting, during the hell that was the Third Battle of Ypres – also know...