Tony Spagnoly and Ted Smith's Salient Points One collects obscure stories of soldiers, their units, and the actions they engaged in during World War I.
Introduction by Jonathan Nicholls
Compiled together with stories of other points of interest along the old Western Front, each account in this unique history book about life in the Ypres Sector between 1914-1918 is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today.
Featured content includes: Larch Wood (Railway Cuttings) Cemetery; Second Lieutenant Keith Rae; Bellewaarde Farm; Major William Redmond; H. H. Prince Maurice of Battenberg; Major Cropper's Craters; Sergeant Harry Combes D.C.M., R.G.A.; A Cemetery Lost; A Scottish Soldier; Along the Messines Ridge; Halloween Night 1914; A Bloodless Victory; Old Bill is Born; The Yanks are Coming; The Lost Mines of Messines; Hospitalization South of Poperinghe and Canada at Ypres.
