Notes

1st ed Western Front -- Flanders -- Ypres -- Ypres Salient -- Passchendaele -- How battles got named -- New Zealand Division -- A group of specialists -- Leaders of New Zealanders -- Girls and women help -- Haig's plan -- Telling their story -- Impact on the environment -- Trenches -- Results of life in a trench -- Feeding soldiers -- Weapons -- Gas and pillboxes -- Stretcher-bearers -- New Zealand Division moves to Ypres Salient -- Plan for battle of Broodseinde -- October 4 attack -- Results of Broodseinde -- Eyes on Passchendaele -- New Zealanders get ready -- The gun problem -- First Passchendaele, October 12 -- Why Passchendaele is important -- The human cost -- Other results of October 12 -- Passchendaele is part of our culture and heritage -- How Passchendaele is remembered in Belgium -- How Passchendaele is remembered in New Zealand
48 p.
ill (some col.), maps
Summary: Passchendaele, known today as Passendale, is a village in Belgium. During World War 1 it was on the Western Front where German and Allied soldiers fought to break through each other's trench lines. In 1917 New Zealand soldiers fought in two of several battles to try to advance the Allied line so the Allies could capture the high ground of Passchendaele from the Germans. Passchendaele was New Zealand's greatest human catastrophe. It affected more Kiwi families than any other single event in history