The First Day on the Somme
€ 14,75
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780141981604 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Martin Middlebrook |
| Editora | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 464 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,344 |
| Data de Publicação | 31/03/2016 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 13,92 |
| Imposto | € 0,83 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 14,75 |
| Disponibilidade | 8 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
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.