| Record Number |
748148 |
| ISBN |
9781510015012 (pbk.) : |
| Author |
Roberts, Andrew, 1963- author. |
| Title |
Elegy : the first day on the Somme / Andrew Roberts. |
| Edition |
Large print edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
Rearsby, Leicester WF Howes Ltd, 2015. |
| ©2015 |
| Pagination etc. |
263 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note |
Standard print edition originally published: London: Head of Zeus Ltd,. 2015. |
| Formerly CIP. |
| Summary Note |
On 1st 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. Andrew Roberts evokes the pity and the horror of the blackest day in the history of the British army - a summer's day-turned-hell-on-earth by modern military technology - in the words of casualties, survivors, and the bereaved. |
| Subject |
Large print books |
| World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France |
| Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 |
| Large type books |
| Shelf Location |
LP 940.27 ROBE |
