The Middlebrook guide to the Somme battlefields
Subtitle: a comprehensive guide from Crécy to the two world wars
By: Martin & Mary Middlebrook.
Contributors: Middlebrook, Mary.; Middlebrook, Martin, 1932-
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781844155330
Subjects: Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916.; Somme, 2nd Battle of the, France, 1918.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields -- France -- Somme -- Guidebooks.; Battlefields -- France -- Somme -- History.; Somme (France) -- History, Military.; Somme (France) -- Guidebooks.
Genres: Guidebooks.
Description: "Since Roman timres, the French department of the Somme has witnessed many wars [battles], including Crécy (1346), Agincourt (1415), the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and, of course, the two World Wars. ... This ... guide sets out to describe every place on the Somme where there is a military cemetery, memorial, preserved trench or crater not just from the First World [Great] War but throughout the ages until the Allies swept away the Nazi armies during their 1944 advance. ..."--Jacket.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: The Somme battlefields. 1991.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-362) and index.