Name: Upon the Somme, 1916: Two Personal Experiences of British Soldiers in the Battle of the Somme During the First World War
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Author: Severn, Mark ; Williams, Valentine
ISBN: 9781782825319

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Upon the Somme, 1916: Two Personal Experiences of British Soldiers in the Battle of the Somme During the First World War

Type

Physical Book

Author

Valentine Williams

Mark Severn

Publisher

Leonaur Ltd

Language

English

Pages

264

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.47 kg.

ISBN13

9781782825319

Synopsis "Upon the Somme, 1916: Two Personal Experiences of British Soldiers in the Battle of the Somme During the First World War"

The experiences of two young men in a momentous conflict The Battle of the Somme, fought in 1916 on the Western Front, became emblematic of the futility of the First World War. This grand attack was intended by the British and their allies to be the solution to the stalemate of trench warfare that had prevailed since the First Battle of Ypres in the winter of 1914/15. Instead, it proved to be yet another failed attempt to break through lines of heavily defended fixed positions. The resulting loss of life for no real tactical-much less strategic-advantage reached new and staggering numbers and revealed the inability of military commanders to deliver a decisive battlefield victory. The year of the publication of this Leonaur book marks the centenary of the Battle of the Somme and in these pages readers will come to understand the battle from the perspectives of two young, British Army officers who experienced it standing beside their men on the front line. Both accounts reward the reader with intimate detail of life in the trenches, with all its discomforts and horrors, together with revealing insights into the thoughts and deeds of the men who went 'over the top' into the reaping fire of a battlefield of the industrial age. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.

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