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Somme Offensive : March 1918
- Title
- Somme Offensive : March 1918 / Andrew Rawson.
- Author
- Rawson, Andrew
- Publication
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2018.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-4452 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This is an account of the British Expeditionary Force's defensive battle on the Somme in March and April of 1918. It starts with the huge German offensive along a 60 mile front on 21 March. Third and Fifth Armies then had to make a series of fighting withdrawals in which some battalions had to fight their way out while others were overrun. Over the days that followed, men were called upon to fight all day against overwhelming numbers and then march all night to escape. After three years in the trenches, men had to battle in the open without tanks and often without artillery support. As communications failed, battalion and company commanders found themselves having to command in what was essentially a desperate infantry struggle. Each stage of the two week battle is given the same treatment, covering details about the most talked about side of the campaign, the British side. It explains how the British soldier time and again stood and fought. Over fifty new maps chart the day by day progress of each corps on each day. Together the narrative and the maps explain the British Army's experience during a fraught battle for survival. The men who made a difference are mentioned; those who led the advances, those who stopped the counter-attacks and those who were awarded the Victoria Cross. Discover the Somme 1918 campaign and learn how the British Army's brave soldiers fought and died trying to stop the onslaught."--Publisher description.
- Series Statement
- British expeditionary force
- Subject
- Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916
- Note
- Includes index.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-4452
- ISBN
- 1526723328
- 9781526723321
- OCLC
- 990857439
- Author
- Rawson, Andrew, author.
- Title
- Somme Offensive : March 1918 / Andrew Rawson.
- Publisher
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2018.
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- British expeditionary force
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-4452