Showing Fatal Avenue: Traveller's History of the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders, 1346-1945 by Richard Holmes

De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading armies have swept back and forth over this bloody terrain. This book is both a history and a guide of a region that has witnessed more bitter military conflict than any other area of its size on earth.