The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916

di Martin Middlebrook (Autore)

Penguin Books Ltd, 2016

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.

• Autore: Martin Middlebrook
• Editore: Penguin Books Ltd
• Anno: 2016
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 464 p.
• Dimensioni: 196 x 129 mm
• Peso: 331 gr.
• EAN: 9780141981604

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