Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties, but also for the mud. Ypres was the principal town within a salient (or bulge ...

What is certain is that the hugely impressive British victories of 1918 were in part due to the brutal lessons learned at Passchendaele. Britain won the First World War in 1918 by marrying ...