Starting at the most visited part of the Ypres Salient, the museum at Sanctuary Wood, this book conducts visitors not only over today's ground, but also through the landscapes and events of more than seventy years ago, and incorporates those pieces of evidence, whether trench or other surviving relics, cemetery, memorial or museum, that remain as reminders of a brutal history.

Nigel Cave is the founder editor of the Battleground Europe series; his association with the Company goes back some thirty years.