Riding in the Zone Rouge - The Tour of the Battlefields 1919 - Cycling's Toughest-Ever Stage Race

Tom Isitt

The Circuit des Champs de Bataille (the Tour of the Battlefields) was held in 1919, less than six months after the end of the First World War. It covered 2,000 kilometres and was raced in appalling conditions across the battlefields of the Western Front, otherwise known as the Zone Rouge. The race was s...