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The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian 'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways' On 1 July 1916, a continous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns. By the end of the day there were more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatal. Martin Middlebrook's now-classic account of the blackest day in the history of the British army draws on official sources from the time, and on the words of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror.
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The First Day on the Somme, Martin Middlebrook
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- Année de publication
- 2016
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- Titre
- The First Day on the Somme
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Martin Middlebrook
- Éditeur
- Penguin UK
- Publié
- 2016
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0141981601
- ISBN13
- 9780141981604
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Art / Culture, Sciences sociales, Histoire, Commerce, Affaires & Gestion, Technologie & Ingénierie, Architecture, Architecture et urbanisme, Sport, Politique, Économie, Histoire militaire, Allemagne, France, Prose de guerre, Guerres, Militaire, Seconde Guerre mondiale, Biographies, 20e siècle, Angleterre, Littérature spécialisée, Europe, Grande-Bretagne, Japon, Histoire de l'Europe, Époque antique, Anthropologie, Histoire du monde, Archéologie, Espionnage, Histoire des États-Unis, Culture, Espagne, Livres, Première Guerre mondiale (1914–1918), Grèce, Survie, XVIIIe siècle, Rome, Turquie, Captivant, Armée, Batailles
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- 4,35 sur 5
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- The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian 'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways' On 1 July 1916, a continous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns. By the end of the day there were more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatal. Martin Middlebrook's now-classic account of the blackest day in the history of the British army draws on official sources from the time, and on the words of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror.