The Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields

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Description

While best known as being the scene of the most terrible carnage in the World War I the French department of the Somme has seen many other battles from Roman times to 1944. William the Conqueror launched his invasion from there; the French and English fought at Crecy in 1346; Henry V's army marched through on their way to Agincourt in 1415; the Prussians came in 1870. The Great War saw three great battles and approximately half of the 400,000 who died on the Somme were British - a terrible harvest, marked by 242 British cemeteries and over 50,000 lie in unmarked graves.

These statistics explain in part why the area is visited year-on-year by ever increasing numbers of British and Commonwealth citizens. This evocative book written by the authors of the iconic First Day on the Somme.is a thorough guide to the cemeteries, memorials and battlefields of the area, with the emphasis on the fighting of 1916 and 1918, with fascinating descriptions and anecdotes.

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Manufacturer/Publisher: Pen & Sword
Binding: Paperback
Author: Martin & Mary Middlebrook

SKU: 9781473879072

The Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields

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