The First Day on the Somme
€14.75
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780141981604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Middlebrook |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.344 |
| Publishing Date | 31/03/2016 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €13.92 |
| Tax | €0.83 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €14.75 |
| Availability | 9 units in external warehouse |
Product 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.