Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties, but also for the mud. Ypres was the principal town within a salient (or bulge ...

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 ...

Battles at Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele come to mind ... While the commanders in the West found themselves fighting ...

and set the record for highest number of individual bravery awards for a single battle.