Hachette India

A Storm in Flanders

Winston Groom

A vivid page-turning narrative of the most horrific battle in history by a soldier turned bestselling novelist

A fast-paced and vivid narrative of the most horrific campaign in history: the four-year slaughter around the Belgian town of Ypres 1914-18. Switching seamlessly between the generals' headquarters, the politicians' councils and -- above all -- the mud and blood of the trenches, this is a wonderfully accessible history.

Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler both fought in the frontline at Ypres: Groom reveals what happened to both men. We see the campaign through their eyes and the experience of other officers and men, including the war poet Edmund Blunden (later professor of poetry at Oxford).

From the desperate defence put up by the tiny British regular army in 1914 to the infamous Passchendaele offensive, this is popular history at its best.

Winston Groom

WINSTON GROOM was born in Washington D.C. but grew up in Mobile Alabama on the Gulf Coast. After a brief period in the Army Groom returned to Washington where he worked as a reporter at the Washington Star covering the political and court beat. He enjoyed a stint in New York City befriending and socializing with literary legends before returning to Alabama where he settled down to writing and enjoying life. He is the author of 18 previous books including Forrest Gump and The Aviators.