A comprehensive account of one of the most infamous battles of the First World War – The Somme. With many lives lost a lot has been written about mistakes and wrong decisions made but Hart tries to look at these in a less damning way than other historians have. He analyses why decisions were made by those in charge in an unbiased fashion and gives us great insight not only in to those leaders but also the minds of the ordinary soldiers fighting their own individual battles.
On 1 July 1916, Douglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring an end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next was a human catastrophe: scrambling over the top into the face of the German machine guns and artillery fire, almost 20,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers were killed that day alone, and twice as many wounded - the greatest loss in a single day ever sustained by the British Army.
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On 1 July 1916, Douglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring an end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next was a human catastrophe: scrambling over the top into the face of the German machine guns and artillery fire, almost 20,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers were killed that day alone, and twice as many wounded - the greatest loss in a single day ever sustained by the British Army.
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The Somme was written by Peter Hart and published by Orion Publishing Co
The Somme has 602 pages
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