24 Hours on the Somme
my experiences of the first day of the somme 1 july 1916
$28.54
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2016
Summary
24 Hours on the Somme: A Soldier’s Eye View of the First Day
There are many accounts of the Battle of the Somme by surviving British soldiers. But the Somme was not a single battle but a series of offensives and small localised attacks fought over four and a half months. What is etched into the British psyche is the huge loss of life suffered by the ‘poor bloody infantry’ on the first day of the Somme, 1 July 1916.
The carnage was such that few survived to tell the tale of t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781445655451 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1445655454 |
| Author: | Edward Liveing |
| Publisher: | Amberley Publishing |
| Imprint: | Amberley Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 303g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 165mm |
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About The Author
Edward Liveing
Edward Liveing was a twenty-year-old junior infantry officer when he led his platoon of the County of London Regiment from the trenches on the Somme in the third wave at Gommecourt at 730am plus 45 seconds on 1 July 1916. He worked for the BBC after the war and died in 1963.
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