The First day on the Somme, 1 July 1916/ Martin Middlebrook

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1984Description: xviii, 365 pages; maps, illustrations; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0140171347 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: As well as drawing on official sources, local newspapers, autobiographies, novels and poems from the time, most importantly The First Day on the Somme also takes in the accounts of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror. The First Day on the Somme describes the true events behind one of the largest battles of the First World War, and the sacrifice of a generation of young men - killed as much by the folly of their commanders as by the bullets of their enemies.
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As well as drawing on official sources, local newspapers, autobiographies, novels and poems from the time, most importantly The First Day on the Somme also takes in the accounts of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror.

The First Day on the Somme describes the true events behind one of the largest battles of the First World War, and the sacrifice of a generation of young men - killed as much by the folly of their commanders as by the bullets of their enemies.

FIRST WORLD WAR, MODERN WARFARE, TRENCH WARFARE, BATTLE OF THE SOMME, FATALITIES, CASUALTIES

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