Salient Points Three

As with other books in the series, Salient Points Three covers a range of dramatic actions on a crucial sector of the Western Front in World War I. This volume covers the story of a young aristocrat serving with the Grenadier Guards, an early British tank attack on the German strongpoint of St. Julien, and the gripping story of a machine gun team besieged by the Germans in an ancient monastery. Also covered is the tragic story of a fourteen-year-old South African serving at the front and the unraveling of the legend of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry "lost platoon", said to have been found in the cloisters of St. Martin's Church in Ypres after the Armistice.