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Slaughter on the Somme, 1 July 1916 : the complete war diaries of the British Army's worst day

Title
Slaughter on the Somme, 1 July 1916 : the complete war diaries of the British Army's worst day / compiled by Martin Mace and John Grehan ; with additional research by Sara Mitchell.
Publication
  • Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military, 2013.
  • ©2013

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Additional Authors
  • Grehan, John.
  • Mace, Martin.
Description
xxviii, 514 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
At 07.30 hours on 1 July 1916, the devastating cacophony of the Allied artillery fell silent along the front on the Somme. The ear-splitting explosions were replaced by the shrill sound of hundreds of whistles being blown. At that moment, tens of thousands of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches on their part of the Western Front, and began to make their way steadily towards the German lines opposite. It was the first day of the Battle of the Somme. By the end of the day, a number of the battalions involved had met with some degree of success; others had suffered heavy losses for no gain, whilst a few quite literally ceased to exist. That day, the old infantry tactics of the British Army clashed head-on with the reality of modern warfare. On what is generally accepted as the worst day in the British Army's history, there were more than 60,000 casualties - a third of them fatal. In this publication, the authors have drawn together, for the first time ever, all the War Diary entries for those battalions that went "over the top" that day - a day which even now still touches so many families both in the United Kingdom and around the world.
Subject
  • Great Britain. Army > Diaries
  • Great Britain. Army
  • 1916
  • Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 > Personal narratives
  • France
Genre/Form
  • Diaries
  • Personal narratives
  • Personal narratives.
  • Récits personnels.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: VII corps -- VIII CORPS -- X Corps -- III Corps -- XV Corps -- XIII Corps.
ISBN
  • 9781848847705
  • 184884770X
OCLC
  • ocn815366434
  • 815366434
  • SCSB-1686643
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library