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THE MURDEROUS STRUGGLE FOR PASSCHENDAELE

 Senseless Slaughter on Both Sides.  An Instance of Great Compassion: ‘The Wounded Highlander Survived.’ Special to The Great War Project. (late September) These are the days, a century ago, when the British launch an offensive in Belgian Flanders that comes to be called variously the battle of the Ypres Salient, or Third Ypres, or Passchendaele.…