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The Somme/ A,H, Farrar-Hockley

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pan Grand Strategy SeriesPublication details: London: Pan Books, 1983Description: 269 pages; maps, illustrations; 19 cmISBN:
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Subject(s): Summary: It tells of bloody battles interspersed with trench actions of dreadful intensity. In addition to the key confrontations, Farrar-Hockley provides a detailed background to the Somme planning and why it failed with dreadful casualties. In its entirety, the conflict along the Somme scarred the minds of a whole generation, becoming recorded by historians as the graveyard of the 'flower of British manhood'.
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It tells of bloody battles interspersed with trench actions of dreadful intensity. In addition to the key confrontations, Farrar-Hockley provides a detailed background to the Somme planning and why it failed with dreadful casualties. In its entirety, the conflict along the Somme scarred the minds of a whole generation, becoming recorded by historians as the graveyard of the 'flower of British manhood'.

BATTLE OF THE SOMME, FIRST WORLD WAR, MILITARY ENGAGEMENTS, TRENCH ACTION, TRENCH WARFARE

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