Passchendaele Louai Al Roumani The 39-Storey Treehouse

The 39-Storey Treehouse

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Passchendaele Louai Al Roumani The 39-Storey TreehouseOne hundred years on On 18 July 1917, a heavy artillery barrage was unleashed by the Allied forces against an entrenched German army outside the town of Ypres. it was to be the opening salvo of one of the most ferociously fought and debilitating encounters of the First World War. Few battles would encapsulate the utter futility of the war better that what became known as the Battle of Passchendaele. By the time the British and Canadian forces finally