Elegy [text(large print)]
Roberts, Andrew, 1963-2015
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On 1st July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 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. In killing-grounds whose names are indelibly imprinted on 20th-century memory, German machine-guns - manned by troops who had sat out the storm of shellfire in deep dugouts - inflicted terrible losses on the British infantry. Andrew Roberts evokes the pity and the horror of the blackest day in the history of the British army - a summer's day-turned-hell-on-earth by modern military technology - in the words of casualties, survivors, and the bereaved.
Main title:
Elegy [text(large print)] / Andrew Roberts.
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Imprint:
Rearsby : Clipper Large Print, 2015.Rearsby : Clipper Large Print, 2015.
Collation:
432 pages (large print)
ISBN:
9781510015012 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.4272
Language:
English
BRN:
1486072