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 Cameos of the Western Front The Anatomy of a Raid Ypres Sector 1914-18 By Tony Spagnoly and Ted Smith
Published in 1998 (Revised Edition) by Leo Cooper, UK
SOFTCOVER, 130 Pages Size - 22cm * 14cm
The book is in brand-new condition.
After the successful battle for the Broodseinde Ridge and crossroads on 4th October 1917, a raid was planned as part of a series of actions acting as a diversion for the main attack on the Passchendaele Ridge. With its target a small woodland called Celtic Wood on the eastern slopes of the Broodseinde Ridge, a raiding party of 85 men of the 10th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, A.l.F. attacked at dawn on 9th October.
The raid resulted in an unmitigated disaster and only 48 men were accounted for following it. What happened to those other 37 young Australians? Who recorded their deaths? Where are their graves? This book brings to the reader the detail surrounding this unresolved mystery of the Great War.
The Anatomy of a Raid, Tony Spagnoly's and Ted Smith's first book, started life as a 'cameo' but they decided it merited a book in its own right, as was the case with their third book, A Walk Around Plugstreet.
This revised edition, covering the tragic raid on Celtic Wood, includes more information on the German regiment involved as well as information taken from an interview with the raid commander's elder brother. Tony Spagnoly was born in London in 1928. A sea cadet throughout the war years he enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1944 serving in destroyers and cruisers in the Far East. His professional life since has been in the engineering and electronic industries. A deep-rooted interest in the Great War has resulted in many research projects on the old battlefields of Flanders and Picardy, and in 1991 this culminated in the publishing of his first book in collaboration with his close friend Ted Smith. They have since worked together on producing the Salient Points series of books. Ted Smith was born in London in 1936. His job in international advertising and marketing caused him to move to Paris in 1966 and then to Brussels in 1967 where he lived and worked until returning to England in 1988. For the better part of those 21 years in Belgium, he spent his spare time on the battlefields around Ypres and northern France. When not tramping around them he is reading about them or studying maps of them. He met Tony Spagnoly on one of them and since then they have worked together on such projects as mentioned above. Illustrated with 21 B&W photos and 5 maps
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