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Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields (Paperback)
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Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields (Paperback)
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List price R490
Loot Price R419
Discovery Miles 4 190
You Save R71 (14%)
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While best known as being the scene of the most terrible carnage in
the WW1 the French department of the Somme has seen many other
battles from Roman times to 1944. William the Conqueror launched
his invasion from there; the French and English fought at Crecy in
1346; Henry V's army marched through on their way to Agincourt in
1415; the Prussians came in 1870. The Great War saw three great
battles and approximately half of the 400,000 who died on the Somme
were British - a terrible harvest, marked by 242 British cemeteries
and over 50,000 lie in unmarked graves. These statistics explain in
part why the area is visited year-on-year by ever increasing
numbers of British and Commonwealth citizens. This evocative book
written by the authors of the iconic First Day on the Somme.is a
thorough guide to the cemeteries, memorials and battlefields of the
area, with the emphasis on the fighting of 1916 and 1918, with
fascinating descriptions and anecdotes.
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