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The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian
'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways'
On 1 July 1916, a continous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns. By the end of the day there were more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatal.
Martin Middlebrook's now-classic account of the blackest day in the history of the British army draws on official sources from the time, and on the words of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror.
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The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words (Guardian)
A particularly vivid and personal narrative (Times Literary Supplement)
Pioneering and hauntingly eloquent (Peter Parker Spectator)
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A particularly vivid and personal narrative (Times Literary Supplement)
Pioneering and hauntingly eloquent (Peter Parker Spectator)
Martin Middlebrook is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of many important books on military history including The Kaiser's Battle and The Falklands War 1982.
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- Publication date2016
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- ISBN 13 9780141981604
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