The First Day on the Somme - by Martin Middlebrook (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian 'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways' On 1 July 1916, a continous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns. By the end of the day there were more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatal. Martin Middlebrook's now-classic account of the blackest day in the history of the British army draws on official sources from the time, and on the words of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - <i>Guardian</i></b> <p/><i>'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways' </i> <p/>On 1 July 1916, a continous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns. By the end of the day there were more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatal. <p/>Martin Middlebrook's now-classic account of the blackest day in the history of the British army draws on official sources from the time, and on the words of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words--<i>Guardian</i> <p/>A particularly vivid and personal narrative--<i>Times Literary Supplement</i> <p/>Pioneering and hauntingly eloquent--Peter Parker, Spectator<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Martin Middlebrook is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of many important books on military history including The Kaiser's Battle and The Falklands War 1982.
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