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Elegy

The First Day on the Somme
CD - unabridged
(6 CDs)
Product Number: CX3155
Released: 01 Jan, 2016
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781510017429
Narrator(s): Gordon Griffin
Publisher: W F Howes
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On 1 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.

Author(s): Andrew Roberts
Original Publish Date: 01 Jan, 2016

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Author(s): Andrew Roberts
Narrator(s): Gordon Griffin
Product Number D4276
Released: 01 Apr, 2016
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781510027565

Professional reviews

"Andrew Roberts evokes the pity and the horror of the blackest day in the history of the British army. Andrew Roberts is a prize-winning historian, journalist and broadcaster. ‘Britain's finest contemporary military historian' ECONOMIST"

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