Elegy

Large Print
(272 Pages)
Product Number: LP3621
Released: 01 Dec, 2015
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781510015012
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

On the 1st of July 1916, 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. German machine-guns - manned by troops who had sat out the storm of shellfire in deep dugouts - inflicted terrible losses on the British infantry. The British Fourth Army lost 57,470 casualties, the French Sixth Army suffered 1,590 casualties and the German 2nd Army 10,000. And this was but the prelude to 141 days of slaughter that would witness the deaths of between 750,000 and 1 million troops.

Author(s): Andrew Roberts
Original Publish Date: 01 Dec, 2015

Professional reviews

"Andrew Roberts evokes the pity and the horror of the blackest day in the history of the British army. Andrew Roberts is a prize-winning historian, journalist and broadcaster."

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