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World War I, 1914-1918, Tour
- 2009 -
June 13-21, 2009
A war designed on attack with overwhelming force and lightning moves that became a conflict marked by stalemate and slaughter rather than movement and conquest. By 1915 four million soldiers occupied pestilential trenches along a 500 mile front which would change little in the next three years.
Areas to visit: (in seven very full travel days)
Calais-Ypres (British)
Ypres Salient
The Road to Arras (Br.)
Compeigne Armistice train (Br.)
The Battles of the Somme River (Br. & French)
Arras to CambraI (Br.)
The Route to Mons (Br.)
Mons Battlefield (Br.)
Battles of the Marne River
Le Cateau to Amiens (AEF)
Saint Quentin to Reims (WW 2 Armistice building) (AEF)
Chateau Thiery and the Argonne -Meuse battlefields (AEF)
Verdun (AEF & Fr.)
Metz- Nancy (Fr.)
St. Mihiel (AEF)
Single person supplement $650
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