Post D-Day, with the Allies on the newly created ‘Second Front’ driving fast eastwards beyond Paris, and the Russians on the ‘Eastern Front’ pressing we
1 July 1916: the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The hot, hellish day in the fields of northern France that has dominated our perception of the First Worl
* A major new work on the notorious First World War battle, the first to argue in significant detail for a complete overhaul of our present view of the Somme