Scorched earth
Subtitle: the Germans on the Somme, 1914-1918
By: by Gerhard Hirschfeld, Gerd Krumeich and Irina Renz ; translated by Geoffrey Brooks
Contributors: Renz, Irina; Krumeich, Gerd; Brooks, Geoffrey
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Barnsley, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781844159734
Description: "This book discusses in detail the experience of German warfare in the First World War, focusing specifically on the Battle of the Somme. The Somme, together with other regions of Northern France, had also lain under German domination. Its inhabitants had been rigorously suppressed and their possessions carted off as booty. Finally, during their 1917 withdrawal, the Germans had subjected the whole region to Operation Alberich, a retreat involving unparalleled brutality which left the population in occupation of a wilderness wrought by war the 'scorched earth policy'. A well-known, and well-researched account, the authors have combined their research skills to produce a book which includes private testimonies. Amongst these are many unknown or previously unpublished letters and diaries as well as numerous photographs"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the German.