BOURLON WOOD (Battleground Europe): Hindenburg Line

Bourlon Wood is an isolated piece of forest near Cambrai in eastern France. It was the scene of severe fighting in 1917 involving the Canadians. This book concentrates on the dramatic events following the battle of the Somme, when the Germans made a strategic withdrawal, shortening their lines and falling back on the prepared defences of the Hindenburg Line. leaving a wasteland of vacated towns, poisoned wells, felled trees, blown up buildings and booby traps in the territory they had evacuated. Bourlon Wood found itself in the front line with fighting concentrated on a bloody ravine.