TY  - BOOK
AU  - PHILPOTT William
TI  - Bloody victory: the sacrifice of the Somme and the making of the twentieth century 
SN  - 9781408701089 (hbk) :
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Little Brown
KW  - FIRST WORLD WAR
KW  - WESTERN FRONT
KW  - SOMME
KW  - FIRST BATTLE
N2  - A reassessment of the Battle of the Somme, 1916, which questions many long held assumptions and sets events in their broader context for example noting that the armies of three nations - France, Germany, and Britain - were involved, even though the story is most often presented as a colossal waste of British lives
ER  -