| The First Day on the Somme UK Edition Contributor(s): Middlebrook, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0141981601 ISBN-13: 9780141981604 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War I - History | Europe - France - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 940.427 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.65 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Germany - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |