BATTLE OF ARRAS NORTH: A VISITOR’S GUIDE Vimy Ridge to Oppy Wood and Gavrelle

This “Visitor’s Guide” 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.chillingly referred to by Captain Cyril Falls, the British Official Historian, as the most ‘savage infantry battle of the war.’