Presenter Dan Snow discusses why The Battle of Passchendaele was such a unique moment in the First World War. Passchendaele. The word itself conjures up an image of hell. A shattered landscape ...

Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous not ... in the British lines and the site of two previous battles: First Ypres (October-November 1914) and Second ...

The Battle of Passchendaele was one of the worst slaughters of the First World War. During the summer and fall of 1917, soldiers fought through endless rains and across fields of deep mud to ...