TY  - BOOK
AU  - MIDDLEBROOK Martin
TI  - The First day on the Somme, 1 July 1916
SN  - 0140171347 (pbk.)
PY  - 1984///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books Ltd
KW  - FIRST WORLD WAR
KW  - MODERN WARFARE
KW  - TRENCH WARFARE
KW  - BATTLE OF THE SOMME
KW  - FATALITIES
KW  - CASUALTIES
N2  - 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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