BEFORE ENDEAVOURS FADE

Rose E. B. Coombs, MBE

An excellent and painstakingly well researched record
that will be a book of reference as long as interest in this devastating war continues.
SOLDIER

COMPLETELY REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION

NOW INCLUDING A SUPPLEMENT ON FROMELLES

Published October 2010

From the Belgian coast, across the fields of Flanders, over the valley of the Somme and down the line to the Argonne: all the major battlefields of the First World War - Ypres, Arras, Cambrai, Amiens, St Quentin, Mons, Le Cateau, Reims, Verdun and St Mihiel - are criss-crossed in this book over more than thirty different routes, each clearly shown on a Michelin map. Every significant feature is described in detail. Indispensable for anyone contemplating a tour of the battlefields in Belgium and France, this book combines the years of knowledge, travel and research of its author, Rose Coombs, who worked at the Imperial War Museum in London for nearly forty years. Since her death in 1991, After the Battle's Editor, Karel Margry, has travelled every route, checking and revising the text where necessary, as well as re-photographing every memorial. Many new ones are added, including the new cemetery at Fromelles inaugurated in July 2010, yet we have striven to keep true to the flavour of Rose's original concept . . . before endeavours fade.

SIZE 12" × 8½" 
240 PAGES 
OVER 850 ILLUSTRATIONS

HARD COVER ISBN 1 870067 63 0
£24.95
CODE F002

COMPLETE CONTENTS

Introduction by the Author

About this book

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Demarcation Stones

The Poppy Legend

Battlefield Debris

CALAIS-YPRES Route I via Bergues

CALAIS-YPRES Route II via Cassel

CALAIS-YPRES Route III via St Omer

ZEEBRUGGE-YPRES The Yser Battlefield - Battles of the Ypres Salient 1914-1918

Summary

YPRES

YPRES YPRES SALIENT BATTLEFIELD TOUR

Route I The Northern Sector

Route II The North-eastern Sector

Route III The Eastern Sector

Route IV The South-eastern Sector

Route V The Rear Areas

THE ROAD SOUTH

ARRAS THE BATTLES OF THE SOMME ARRAS-CAMBRAI

Route I via Monchy-le-Preux ARRAS-CAMBRAI

Route II via Bullecourt

FIVE ROUTES TO MONS

MONS

MONS MONS BATTLEFIELD TOUR

MONS TO LE CATEAU

LE CATEAU LE CATEAU TO AMIENS

AMIENS TO CALAIS

Route I via Abbeville

AMIENS TO CALAIS

Route II via St Pol-sur-Ternoise

ST QUENTIN TO REIMS

The Chemin des Dames and the Champagne Battlefields

REIMS TO VERDUN

The Argonne Battlefield

VERDUN

VERDUN BATTLEFIELD TOUR

THE ST MIHIEL SALIENT

REIMS TO COMPIÈGNE

THE BATTLE OF FROMELLES

INDEX