| Descript |
x, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and index |
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On 1st July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible cost. In killing-grounds whose names are indelibly imprinted on 20th-century memory, German machine-guns - manned by troops who had sat out the storm of shellfire in deep dugouts - inflicted terrible losses on the British infantry. Andrew Roberts evokes the pity and the horror of the blackest day in the history of the British army - a summer's day-turned-hell-on-earth by modern military technology - in the words of casualties, survivors, and the bereaved |
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Somme, 1st Battle of the (France : 1916)
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1916
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Första världskriget 1914-1918
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Slaget vid Somme 1916
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Fältslag
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Frankrike -- Somme
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| Classmark |
940.4272
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9781784080013 |
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