THE IMMORTAL SALIENT.
The Ypres Times.
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OPINION OF OUR PATRON-IN-CHIFF.
Buckingham Palace.
24th February, 1925.
My Dear General,The King is much interested in the Guide Book to the Ypres
Salient which you have been good enough to send for His Majesty's acceptance, and for
which the King wishes me to thank you.
To those who visit these Battlefields the King feels sure that this Guide Book will
be of great historical value, and it will ever keep alive the memories of British achieve
ments in that-immortal Salient.
Yours sincerelv,
CLIVE WIGRAM.
Lieut.-General Sir William Pulteney, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., D.S.O.
The Immortal Salient was published in January
and met with an immediate success. A second
edition was called for within three weeks, and a
third is now coming out. It was extensively
reviewed, and we append some Press cuttings.
We will not review the book here, but give a
brief summary of some letters that we have
received. The general opinion expressed is that
the value of the book lies in its double character
"You have set a new standard in guide books."
Besides being a very complete guide to the Salient,
it is found to be an accurate history to have in a
library.
"It is a most perfect book to have in the
Salient, and all the historical matter, with the
beautiful poems, and excellent pictures, make it
a really wonderful thing to read at any time."
It is just splendid. I have read it from cover
to cover, and congratulate you very heartily on
the way you have done it all. It is so good to
have the rea maps, and everything made so
clear."
I have just finished reading it, and am
delighted. It is most absorbing, and most excel
lently compiled. I am glad to see you have
put in Si monumentumno article on the
cemeteries has ever been written to equal it.
I always quote from it when lecturing."
I think the best thing in it is the article on
the Cemeteries. Such writing. The sheer sim
plicity of the language, expressing so much in so
few words I It must be a comfort to many to
read it."
We think here that it is excellent and there is
nothing else in existence which compares with it
for information (from Ypres).
These are samples we will not take up space
quoting further. Enough has been said to show
that the League has scored a valuable success,
and has produced a book which is not only useful,
but furthers our great aim of keeping alive the
heroic traditions of the Immortal Salient.
PROM A GENERAL OFFICER.
I congratulate you on its compilation. It
will prove not only a useful work, but it records
a fine thing which you and those associated with
you have done in marking those important points.
You have done a service to all who visit these
places for any purpose whatever, and i have no
doubt many students of history will in future
bless you."
press opinions.
GLORIOUS YPRES.
The Immortal Salient is a little book that every
Briton should get and keep. For not only is it
an eloquent record of heroic achievement, but it is
also a complete guide to that terra sacra, where
so many British dead repose. Two excellent
maps, one on a very large scale, are enclosed in a
pocket inside the cover.
February 18th. Truth.
The Times reviewed the book as a record and
guide as the Book of the Day on February
3rd.
THE SALIENT.
Mr. John Murray has published for the Ypres
League a compact volume which everyone with
special experience of the most famous of British
fighting fronts will be glad to add to his archives,
and which everyone with a special path to track
in that maze of memories will be wise to choose
for guide.
February 15th. Observer.
THE IMMORTAL SALIENT.
Pilgrims to the battlefields and to the cemeteries
of the fallen require in handy form a guide which
will explain simply and concisely the circumstances
in which the flower of the nation sacrificed their
lives for their country. Nowhere is such a guide
more necessary than in the immortal Ypres
Salient.
The routes which radiate from Ypres outward
through the Salient are minutely described, and
to make this small book absolutely complete,
Captain A. F. B. Carpenter, V.C., R.N., has con
tributed a capital account of the Zeebrugge and
Ostend operations. Excellent maps and some
striking illustrations add greatly to the value of
this perfect guide.
J anuary 28th. Morning Pqst.
