Elegy: The First Day on the Somme - Couverture rigide

Roberts, Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1784080012 ISBN 13 : 9781784080013

Editeur : Head of Zeus, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Always highly readable, gives a succinct and cohesive overview of the day, and is hearteningly even-handed' Spectator 'Let's be honest about Somme historiography; it either comes drenched in pitying tears or in posturing outrage, but both occlude. Roberts has played it straight with a clean and lucid overview so that one can actually see and understand what happened on that day' The Times 'The book's opening chapters on the strategy and tactics of the battle provide an excellent, succinct summary of the constraints within which it was planned. Roberts rightly stresses the subordination of British planning to that of the French, and sensibly eschews the British desire to say it was undertaken to save their allies at Verdun' Evening Standard 'The shattering story of the blackest day in the history of the British Army, the first day of the Somme Offensive, through the words of casualties, survivors, and the bereaved' --Military History Monthly

'A well-written, clear, moving introduction to the slaughter on the Somme and its place in wider conflict.' Sunday Times --Sunday Times

'Blending deep scholarly skill with a real literary talent.' --Dan Jones, Evening Standard

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. The British Fourth Army lost 57,470 casualties, the French Sixth Army suffered 1,590 casualties and the German 2nd Army 10,000. And this was but the prelude to 141 days of slaughter that would witness the deaths of between 750,000 and 1 million troops. 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Head of Zeus
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784080012
• ISBN 13: 9781784080013
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320