Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches November 1916 - Couverture rigide

Rogerson, Sidney

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ISBN 10 : 1853676802 ISBN 13 : 9781853676802

Editeur : Greenhill Books, 2005

Synopsis

Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches November 1916

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A joint operation between Britain and France in 1916, the Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany s military strength. By the end of the action, very little ground had been won: the Allied Forces had made just 12km. For this slight gain, a more than a million lives were lost. There were more than 400,000 British, 200,000 French, and 500,000 German casualities during the fighting. Twelve Days on the Somme is a memoir of the last spell of front-line duty performed by the 2nd Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment. Written by Sidney Rogerson, a young officer in B Company, it gives an extraordinarily frank and often moving account of what it was really like to fight through one of most notorious battles of the First World War. Its special message, however, is that, contrary to received assumptions, men could face up to the terrible ordeal such a battle presented with resilience, good humour and without loss of morale. This is a classic work whose reprinting is long overdue.

Revue de presse :

Sidney Rogerson has put down, plainly and simply, the experiences of his battalion. There is no attempt to compass drama by any device of selection or exaggeration --The Observer

A more genuine and unbiased account of trench warfare would be hard to find --The Sunday Times

Memoirs of a British subaltern first published in 1933; vivid descriptions without embellishment of life on the front lines written by a survivor of the 1916 Somme offensive. Unabashedly intended as an antidote to the usual downbeat 1930's war memoir. --Western Front Association

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Greenhill Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1853676802
• ISBN 13: 9781853676802
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208