The First Day on the Somme by Martin Middlebrook
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Description On 1 July, 1916, a continuous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk slowly towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns and defended by thick barbed wire. This is an account of the blackest day in the history of the British army.
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The first day on the Somme was the blackest day of slaughter in the history of the British Army- this is a powerful account of the experiences of soliders who faced itOn 1 July 1916, a continous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk slowly towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns and defended by thick barbed wire. By the end of that day, as old tactics were met by the reality of modern warfare, there had been more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatalities.Martin Middlebrook's classic account of the blackest day in the history of the British army draws on official sources, local newspapers, autobiographies, novels and poems from the time. Most importantly, it 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. Compelling and intensely moving, it describes the true events behind the sacrifice of a generation of young men -killed as much by the folly of their commanders as by the bullets of their enemies.
Author Biography
Martin Middlebrook is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of many important books on military history including The Kaiser's Battle and The Falklands War 1982.
Details ISBN 0141981601 ISBN-13 9780141981604 Title The First Day on the Somme Author Martin Middlebrook Format Paperback Year 2016 Pages 464 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd GE_Item_ID:97618913; About Us
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