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Stan: Używany
Okładka: miękka
Rok wydania (xxxx): 1988

Lyn MacDonald

Somme

Pepermac 1988 (first 1984)

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Książka zawiera czarno-białe ilustracje.

Stron 366 ; wymiary

Contents

List of iilustrations x

Author's Foreword and Acknowledgments xiii

Part 1

Lads, You're Wanted! I

Part 2

The Big Push 53

Part 3

'High Wood to Waterlot Farm . . .' 129

Part 4

The Mouthof Heli 253

Part 5

Friends Arę Good on the Day of Battle 339

Bibliography 345

Author's Notę 351

Index 359

Book Description

Publication Date: June 24, 1993

This book looks at the Battle of the Somme, which was planned as "The Big Push" that would at last break the long stalemate on the Western Front in World War I. However the 18 divisions that went over the top between Arras and St-Quentin on the morning of 1 July 1916, walked into a battle that has gone down in the annals of human conflict as the slaughterhouse of a generation. The author has written other books about the history of World War I, including, "They Called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land".

Somme, July 1916. For almost 70 years the very name has epitomised the horror and hardship of the First World War. The Banie of the Somme was the

most meticulously planned campaign in modern warfare, but for the generation of young men who had so enthusiasticallyjoined up in 1914 it

became a baptism of fire. By the time it was over, one hundred and fifty thousand lay dead; three hundred thousand morę were maimed or wounded.

In this highly praised book, Lyn Macdonald continues her unigue history of

the First World War. Skilfully blending military history with the personal

recollections of survivors, she presents an unforgettable chronicie of ordinary

people caught up in momentous events - of lite in the face of death.

'A remarkable recreation of the grimmest banie in British history.

Largely through the voices of the past, which Lyn Macdonald - with

greatest assiduity - has tracked down, but partly also thanks to her own

sensitivity to atmosphere, she has produced an orał history of lasting

value.Sheiscompassionate,discriminating(and-mostimportant-fair.'

AlistairHorne

Lyn MacDonald

Over the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the First World War. Her books are They Called It Passchendaele, an account of the Passchendaele campaign in 1917; The Roses of No Man's Land, a chronicle of the war from the neglected viewpoint of the casualties and the medical teams who struggled to save them; Somme, a history of the legendary and horrifying battle that has haunted the minds of succeeding generations; 1914, a vivid account of the first months of the war and winner of the 1987 Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award; 1[zasłonięte]914-19: Voices and Images of the Great War, an illuminating account of the many different aspects of the war; and 1915: The Death of Innocence, a brilliant evocation of the year that saw the terrible losses of Aubers Ridge, Loos, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres and Gallipoli.

Her most recent book, To the Last Man: Spring 1918, has been published by Viking. All are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the First World War. Most are published in Penguin.