The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916

ISBN-13: 9780141981604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 448 str.

Martin Middlebrook

Opis

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.

Recenzje

The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words Guardian

O autorze

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.