A Storm in Flanders

From the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump : “A fascinating, evenhanded, page-turning account” of Ypres’s pivotal WWI battles ( San Francisco Chronicle ). The Ypres Salient in Belgian Flanders was the most notorious and dreaded territory in all of World War I—possibly of any war in history. After Germany’s failed attempt to capture Britain’s critical ports along the English Channel, a bloody stalemate ensued in this pastoral area no larger than the island of Manhattan. Ypres became