TY  - BOOK
AU  - FARRAR-HOCKLEY A H
TI  - The Somme
SN  - 0330376438 (pbk.):
PY  - 1983///
CY  - London
PB  - Pan Books
KW  - BATTLE OF THE SOMME
KW  - FIRST WORLD WAR
KW  - MILITARY ENGAGEMENTS
KW  - TRENCH ACTION
KW  - TRENCH WARFARE
N2  - 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'
ER  -