On 1 July, 1916, a continuous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk slowly towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns and defended by thick barbed wire. By the end of that day, as old tactics were met by the reality of modern warfare, there had been more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatalities.
| ISBN: | 9780141981604 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 2016 |
| Author: | Martin Middlebrook |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 464 pages |
| Primary Genre | History |
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On 1 July, 1916, a continuous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk slowly towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns and defended by thick barbed wire. By the end of that day, as old tactics were met by the reality of modern warfare, there had been more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatalities.
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The First Day on the Somme is available in Hardback, Paperback
The First Day on the Somme was written by Martin Middlebrook and published by Penguin Books Ltd
The First Day on the Somme has 464 pages
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