Photograph showing the degree of destruction suffered by Arras, a city located just behind the British Reserve Line and in the centre of the front chosen for the Arras offensive. It is estimated that only 292 of its 4,521 houses were undamaged at the end of the war. View looking West from the Place des Héros with the ruined Hôtel de Ville in the foreground and Cathedral on the skyline to the left.
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