The Battle of the Somme is fixed in the country's collective memory as a disaster - probably the bloodiest episode in the catalogue of futile offensives launched by the British on the Western Front. Over five months of desperate fighting in 1916 the British wrestled with the Germans for control of a narrow strip of innocuous French countryside. When the fighting petered out the British had barely pushed back the Germans from their original positions for a combined casualty figure of over a million men. But after 80 years this notorious episode in western military history deserves to be reassessed.
Previously unpublished eyewitness accounts are used to give a fascinating first-hand view of the immediate experience of the fighting. As Martin Pegler shows, a revision in our assessment of the Somme, in particular of the tactics and the weaponry employed by the combatants, is overdue, and he challenges the traditional assumptions about the course of the battle and its future impact on the development of warfare.
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Recensione:
A reassesment of the great offensive on the Somme in 1916, which argues that the tactics and weaponry that evolved over the five months that the battle lasted represented a learning curve that eventually won victory on the western front. --Chris Buckand
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- EditorePen & Sword
- Data di pubblicazione2006
- ISBN 10 1844153975
- ISBN 13 9781844153978
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine192
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