The Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal 1940: France and Flanders Campaign

A further volume in Jerry Murland’s series of Battleground books on the France and Flanders Campaign 1940, leading to the Dunkirk Evacuation.

Known in some accounts as the Battle of Wijtschaete, the confrontation along the Ypres—Comines Canal in 1940 is still hardly remembered in this country and, apart from the battle honours displayed proudly on the colours of the regiments who took part – many no longer in existence, very little has been written about the four days which probably saved th...