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Twelve Days on the Somme

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Twelve Days on the Somme

Twelve Days on the Somme

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A joint operation between Britain and France in 1916, the Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany's military strength. By the end of the action, very little ground had been won: the Allied Forces had made just 12km. For this slight gain, a more than a million lives were lost. There were more than 400,000 British, 200,000 French, and 500,000 German casualities during the fighting. Twelve Days on the Somme is a memoir of the last spell of front-line duty performed by the 2nd Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment. Written by Sidney Rogerson, a young officer in B Company, it gives an extraordinarily frank and often moving account of what it was really like to fight through one of most notorious battles of the First World War. Its special message, however, is that, contrary to received assumptions, men could face up to the terrible ordeal such a battle presented with resilience, good humour and without loss of morale. This is a classic work whose reprinting is long overdue.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781853676802
ISBN10 1853676802
Number Of Pages 208
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Greenhill Books
Format hardback
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Memoirs of a British subaltern first published in 1933; vivid descriptions without embellishment of life on the front lines written by a survivor of the 1916 Somme offensive. Unabashedly intended as an antidote to the usual downbeat 1930's war memoir. - Western Front Association As riveting as it was at its first publication. - Bookwatch

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SIDNEY ROGERSON was born in Suffolk in 1894. He was commissioned straight from the Cambridge University OTC into The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment. After World War I, he worked in public relations, first with the Federation of British Industries, and later with ICI. He died in 1968. MALCOLM BROWN is the author of many books, including T. E. Lawrence in War and Peace (Greenhill), and The Letters of T. E. Lawrence.

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