WWI Battlefields

Walking among the blossom orchards, river meadows and green fields of northern France and Belgium
today, one would scarcely have any inkling of the history of these tranquil countries. But the place names
tell their own story.
The Great War is remembered as being almost uniquely terrible, a war of attrition, with huge armies dug in yards apart under relentless barrage, each offensive grinding to a halt with enormous cost.
One hundred years on, life has returned to a land once so blasted it looked like the Moon, and where nothing grew but poppies. Remembrance is everything, and we pay respectful visits to the cemeteries and the great monuments dedicated to the fallen of all sides, and view for ourselves the battlefield sites of Vimy Ridge at Arras, Pozieres, Thiepval and Beaumont Hamel on the Somme, and the fields of the Ypres Salient.

WWI Battlefields

4 days by Coach*, departures from
12 - 26 September 2014

FROM ONLY £279.95pp

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