The First Day on the Somme : 1 July 1916 EPUB
by Martin Middlebrook
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The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park.
Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways' On 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 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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- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:29/06/2006
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- ISBN:9780141926940
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:29/06/2006
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- ISBN:9780141926940