The Somme
Subtitle: Heroism and Horror in the First World War
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: June 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780805081275
Subjects: Western Europe - General; Military - Other; History; History - Military / War; History: World; Military - World War I; History / Europe / Western; Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916
First sentence: THE INFLUENCE OF those in British policymaking circles who wanted to find an area of potential victory other than the Western Front had been much weakened by the Gallipoli evacuation, and by the lack of progress on the Salonika and Mesopotamia fronts.