About this book
At Ypres with Best-Dunkley by Thomas Hope Floyd plunges you into the mud, courage, and quiet heroism of the trenches around Ypres during World War I. This powerful history and war stories collection offers a close-up portrait of the Second Fifth Lancashire Fusiliers, dedicated to the men who fell on 31 July 1917—the opening day of the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele).
Floyd blends vivid frontline recollections with reflective forewords that argue for the importance of personal narratives in understanding the war. Listeners will encounter themes of camaraderie, sacrifice, leadership, and the small daily acts that sustained soldiers amid artillery, mud, and uncertainty. Rather than grand strategy, the book privileges intimate testimony: the routines, conversations, and losses that made up life at Ypres, seen alongside figures such as Best-Dunkley and the rank-and-file of the Lancashire Fusiliers. Historical context is woven through the prose, illuminating how individual experience intersects with sweeping wartime events.
Ideal for military-history enthusiasts, students of World War I, and listeners drawn to authentic war stories and memoir-style accounts, this audiobook brings a humane, unvarnished voice to one of the conflict’s most harrowing chapters.
