Elegy
the first day on the Somme
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Word Count
65,750 words, Guess
Page Count
263 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveelegyfirstdayons0000robe_l7x2
- ISBN-101510015019
- ISBN-139781510015012
- OCLC Control Number931644015
- Open LibraryOL31937143M
Classifications
- DDC940.4/272
Description
On 1st July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible cost. In killing-grounds whose names are indelibly imprinted on 20th-century memory, German machine-guns - manned by troops who had sat out the storm of shellfire in deep dugouts - inflicted terrible losses on the British infantry. Andrew Roberts evokes the pity and the horror of the blackest day in the history of the British army - a summer's day-turned-hell-on-earth by modern military technology - in the words of casualties, survivors, and the bereaved.
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