The Somme Battlefields: A Comprehensive Guide from Crecy to the Two World Wars

Middlebrook, Martin; Middlebrook, Mary

ISBN 10: 0670830836 / ISBN 13: 9780670830831

Published by Viking, London, UK, 1991

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Fist printing. Impressive condition binding of black cloth boards with white titling to spine. End paper maps, 90 b&w photo illustrations plus line maps and drawings. 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 château where a general had his headquarters. In total over 500 described locations. Appears unread in an as new, unclipped dust jacket. Postage will be at cost but an increase may be necessary for international destinations.Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Somme Battlefields: A Comprehensive Guide from Crecy to the Two World Wars
• Publisher: Viking, London, UK
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670830836
• ISBN 13: 9780670830831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Weight: 982 grams

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Synopsis

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.