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010			_a 2015513478
020			_a9781784080013 (hardback)
020			_a1784080012
020			_a9781784080006 (eBook)
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050	0	0	_aD 545.S7
100	1		_aRoberts, Andrew, _d1963-
245	1	0	_aElegy : _bthe first day on the Somme / _cAndrew Roberts.
260			_aLondon : _bHead of Zeus, _c2015.
300			_ax, 291 p. : _bill., maps ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-270) and index.
520	8		_aOn 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 -- _cSource other than Library of Congress.
650		0	_aSomme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2015513478-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2015513478-d.html
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