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Legacy of the Somme 1916
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Gerald Gliddon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing

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The Battle of the Somme is widely regarded as one of the bloodiest and most controversial land battles ever fought. The first British troops went over the top o
Somme 1916
Language: en
Pages: 644
Authors: Gerald Gliddon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-20 - Publisher: The History Press

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Set out topographically, it covers everything from the famous battle sites of High Wood and Mametz Wood to obscure villages on the outlying flanks. The British
When Britain Saved the West
Language: en
Pages: 373
Authors: Robin Prior
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-26 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler’s Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Brit
Three Armies on the Somme
Language: en
Pages: 657
Authors: William Philpott
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-05 - Publisher: Vintage

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For decades, the Battle of the Somme has exemplified the horrors and futility of trench warfare. Yet in Three Armies on the Somme, William Philpott makes a conv
The Missing of the Somme
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Geoff Dyer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-09 - Publisher: Vintage

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The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War. Thro