In Flanders fields : the 1917 campaign
Leon Wolff (Author), J. F. C. Fuller (Writer of introduction)
"If there is a theme to the work of Leon Wolff it would seem to be war, and anger at war and the men who conduct war. It is not surprising, therefore, that some critics have sought to classify him as one of America’s angry young men. It is an epithet that Wolff does not reject, although his age belies it—he was old enough to be an Air Force officer during World War II. “Of course I am an angry man,” he says, “but I believe I am protesting properly, always in behalf of right and decency.” He has protested, with considerable success, three times between the covers of notably eloquent books: Low Level Mission, the story of the costly and debatable American air strike at the Romanian oil fields of Ploesti in 1943; Little Brown Brother, a documentary account of America’s brutal war against the Philippine natives in 1898, for which Wolff won the Society of American Historians’ 1961 Francis Parkman prize; and In Flanders Fields. In Flanders Fields is the history of Britain’s 1917 campaign in Belgium in which Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig expended some 300,000 men to gain—and later lose—a few hundred yards of meaningless, blood-soaked mud." -- Preface
Print Book, English, 1958
The Viking Press, New York, 1958