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On the 1 July, 1916, 20,000 British troops lost their lives during the first day of the Somme. Artillery had barraged the German lines for seven days, but the Germans were heavily dug in and many shells failed to explode due to the wet ground. The bombardment signalled to the Germans that the British were coming, so once it had finished they emerged from their fortifications ready to face, and destroy, the enemy offensive. But the Battle of the Somme was far more than just the 1 July 1916. The four and a half month battle raged on until November 1916 and saw the introduction of the Tank, the creeping barrage and the development of air power. Published as a short work just a year after the battle, John Buchan’s account of the first two phases of the Battle of the Somme, one of bloodiest battles of the Great War, leap off the page a century on. Buchan goes beyond the first day of the Somme to provide a valuable account of the extended battle and the strategy used. He describes the manoeuvres and the generals wh
Paralysis. Stuttering. The 'shakes'. Inability to stand or walk. Temporary blindness or deafness. When strange symptoms like these began appearing in men at Casualty Clearing Stations in 1915, a debate began in army and medical circles as to what it was, what had caused it and what could be done to
Published to coincide with the commemoration of the centenary of the battle of the Somme, this new study comprises twelve separate articles written by some of the foremost military historians, each of which looks at a specific aspect of the battle. Focusing on key aspects of the British, French, and
The Battle of the Somme was not only the costliest battle of World War I, but one of the bloodiest in human history, with more than a million lives lost. Each of those lives was special. In this day-by-day commemorative journal, 141 of those soldiers have been chosen, and the stories behind them des
What was the soldier's experience of the Battle of the Somme? How did the men who were there record their part in the fighting or remember it afterwards? How can we, 100 years later, gain an insight into one of the most famous - and contentious - episodes of the Great War? Matthew Richardson's graph
