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Somme, The - The Death of a Generation

By: Cerberus Publishing

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Cerberus Publishing)

MSRP old price: $15.95


Product Info

Title
Somme, The - The Death of a Generation
Category
Author
Atnhony Farrar-Hockley
Publish Year
2004
Pages
240
Dimensions
6.25x9.25x.75"
NKG Part #
2147889555
Type
Softcover

Description

At 7:30am on July 1, 1916, fourteen British divisions climbed out of their trenches along an 18 mile front north of the Somme and marched slowly forward, each man carrying 66 pounds of kit, in wave after wave of extended lines, steadily on towards the German defenses.

They expected to find the enemy barbed wire, trench systems, artillery and defenders all annihilated by the week-long preliminary bombardment by 1,350 guns. Instead they were massacred by German artillery and machine guns, first as they plodded across no-man’s-land and then as they bunched to struggle through such gaps as existed in the often uncut barbed wire.

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