登入
選單
返回
Google圖書搜尋
The First Day on the Somme
Martin Middlebrook
其他書名
Revised Edition
出版
Pen and Sword
, 2016-06-30
主題
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War I
History / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
History / Europe / France
ISBN
1473877180
9781473877184
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gp98DAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
SAMPLE
註釋
A history of the British Army’s experience at the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.
After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7:30 AM on July 1, 1916, the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on that day, the British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, two for every yard of their front. With more than fifty times the daily losses at El Alamein and fifteen times the British casualties on D-day, July 1, 1916, was the blackest day in the history of the British Army. But, more than that, as Lloyd George recognized, it was a watershed in the history of the First World War. The Army that attacked on that day was the volunteer Army that had answered Kitchener’s call. It had gone into action confident of a decisive victory. But by sunset on the first day on the Somme, no one could any longer think of a war that might be won.
Martin Middlebrook’s research has covered not just official and regimental histories and tours of the battlefields, but interviews with hundreds of survivors, both British and German. As to the action itself, he conveys the overall strategic view and the terrifying reality that it was for front-line soldiers.
Revised in 2016 from the 1971 original edition.
Praise for
The First Day on the Somme
“The remembrance of those lives, difficult as it may be, will start in earnest now, with this wonderful book. It’s almost like being there yourself... enough said.”—
Books Monthly
(UK)