Somme 1914-18: Lessons in War
Nov 2011 · The History Press
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The Somme is a name with particular resonance for the people of Britain, for here, in 1916, the flower of her youth was cut down. Terrible though that day was, it takes its place in a wider story: the long, painful process of learning how to fight a new kind of war. From the war movement of 1914, when the French fought on the fields of the Somme, the conflict evolved to massive frontal assaults by the British and Allied troops in 1916. Here the first tank was first used in September 1916. Increasing sophistication in the terrifying use of artillery by the Germans broke the Allied lines in March 1918. Allied use of this same technology was then combined with other arms to create the fighting complex that inflicted the 'Black Day' on the German army in August and smashed the Hindenberg Line in September. Thus the British, Australian, Canadian, American and French forces defeated the German Army in the field at last. This book reveals how the Somme was the bloody classroom in which this new art of war was studied and it tells the story of the men who paid the price for this knowledge with their own blood.
About the author
Martin Marix-Evans is a leading military historian, who has written widely on the First World War. He is a founder member of the Battlefields Trust and of the Guild of Battlefield Guides. He is also deeply involved with the Naseby Battlefield Project. In 2008, he was appointed an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester. His works include Ypres in War and Peace, D-Day and the Battle of Normandy and The Second World War for Pitkin Publishing, as well as Forgotten Battlefronts of the First World War for The History Press.
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