BATTLES OF ARRAS NORTH: A VISITOR’S GUIDE Vimy Ridge to Oppy Wood and Gavrelle Covers the key battles fought in the northern sector of the Arras front, including the 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge and battles at Villers au Bois, Oppy Wood and Gavrelle. Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland have devised a series of routes that can be walked, biked or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred at each place in vivid detail. BATTLES OF ARRAS SOUTH South Bullecourt, Monchy-le-Preux, Wancourt and the Valley of the Scarpe South of Arras lie some of the Western Front’s most iconic battlefields—Battery Valley, Observation Ridge, Telegraph Hill, Monchy-le-Preux, Wancourt and Bullecourt.matched in historical significance only by Ypres and the Somme. Well illustrated and accessible, this guide enables visitors to follow the course of key engagements across today’s landscape, while offering a deeper understanding of both the brutal fighting of 1917 and the wider evolution of the war along the Western Front
