THE SOMME BATTLEFIELDS A Comprehensive Guide From Crecy to the Two World Wars

MARTIN & MARY MIDDLEBROOK , Military History Authors [ Over 20 Years ]

ISBN 10: 0670830836 / ISBN 13: 9780670830831

Published by VIKING, LONDON, 1991

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Black Boards with Silver titles to spine, 240 x 165 mm approx. Key to Area Maps to end papers, xiv + 386 pp. 90 b/w photo. illustrations, two double page line drawings and 30 line maps of which 6 double page, all as called for. First Edition, 1st printing. An essential book for anyone wishing to visit the Somme Battlefields. It describes every place on the Somme where there is a military cemetery, a memorial, a preserved trench, crater or other reminder of battle, a chateau where a general had his headquarters; more than 500 places. A history book as well as a guide in that every section is introduced with it's background. "History on the ground" As New/ As New (Book- no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- non price clipped- cover £18.99. Supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE SOMME BATTLEFIELDS A Comprehensive Guide From Crecy to the Two World Wars
• Publisher: VIKING, LONDON
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670830836
• ISBN 13: 9780670830831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military / War
  • History
  • Guide Books

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1st Viking edition 1991 1st print hardcover fine condition book in fine dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

From the Publisher

³On the Somme battlefields of France,² writes Martin Middlebrook, ³nearly half a million human beings were killed or died of wounds, illness, or privation in two world wars.² In this moving volume, the authors provide a definitive guide to the cemeteries, memorials, and battlefields from the age of Crécy and Agincourt to the great Allied sweep that drove the Germans back in 1944. Brief chapters consider the routes from the Channel ports, the western Somme, and the towns of Amiens and Doullens, but the majority of the text covers the scenes of ferocious fighting in 1916 and 1918. Comrades buried soldiers where they fell, just behind the lines, in local French graveyards, around medical stations, and in ³concentration cemeteries.² The authors list each site, setting them in historical context. The result is a both a visitor¹s companion and a magnificent work of commemoration.