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The Somme
Nigel Steel
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Description for The Somme
Paperback. A major new history of the most infamous battle of the First World War, as described by the men who fought it. Num Pages: 608 pages, 25 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 46. Weight in Grams: 674.
A major new history of the most infamous battle of the First World War, as described by the men who fought it.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
642g
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780304367351
SKU
V9780304367351
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Ref
99-10
About Nigel Steel
Nigel Steel is head of the Imperial War Museum's Research and Information Department. He and Peter Hart have collaborated on several titles, including works on Gallipoli, Passchendaele and the First World War in the air. Peter Hart was born in 1955. He went to Liverpool University before joining the Sound Archive at the Imperial War Museum in 1981. ... Read more
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