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The First Day on the Somme

The First Day on the Somme

Middlebrook, Martin

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French HistoryBritish HistoryWorld War I

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ISBN10: 0141981601
ISBN13: 9780141981604
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: Apr 1 2018
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
On July 1, 1916, a continous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns. By the end of the day there were more than 60,000 British casualties--a third of them fatal. Martin Middlebrook's now-classic account of the blackest day in the history of the British army draws on official sources from the time, and on the words of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror.

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