TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts,Andrew
TI  - Elegy: the first day on the Somme 
SN  - 9781784080013 (hardback)
AV  - D 545.S7 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Head of Zeus
KW  - Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-270) and index
N2  - 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 --
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2015513478-b.html
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