You are invited to meet Paul Ham when he discusses his new book Passchendaele with our own Janelle Berents.

Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917,  show the worst year of the war: blackened tree stumps rising out of a field of mud, corpses of men and horses drowned in shell holes, terrified soldiers huddled in trenches awaiting the whistle.

What happened at Passchendaele was the expression of the 'wearing-down war', the war of pure attrition at its most spectacular and ferocious.

Paul Ham’s Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth shows how ordinary men on both sides endured this constant state of siege, with a very real awareness that they were being gradually, deliberately, wiped out.

The book tells the story of men in the grip of a political and military power struggle that determined their fate and has foreshadowed the destiny of the world for a century. 

Join us when Paul Ham discusses Passchendaele with Janelle Berents at 6.30pm, on Tuesday October 11th, 2016.

Bookings are essential and can be made via Eventbrite by clicking the button below.

Cost is $ 5.00.

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