The first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916, Martin Middlebrook
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The first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916, Martin Middlebrook
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The first day on the Somme
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bibliography
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Martin Middlebrook
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1 July 1916
Summary
The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - the 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
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