Three Armies on the Somme The First Battle of the Twentieth Century

Name: Three Armies on the Somme The First Battle of the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780307278371

ISBN-10: 0307278379

ISBN-13: 9780307278371

Edition: N/A

Authors: William Philpott

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For decades, the Battle of the Somme has exemplified the horrors and futility of trench warfare. Yet in Three Armies on the Somme,William Philpott makes a convincing argument that the battle ultimately gave the British and French forces on the Western Front the knowledge and experience to bring World War I to a victorious end. It was the most brutal fight in a war that scarred generations. Infantrymen lined up opposite massed artillery and machine guns. Chlorine gas filled the air. The dead and dying littered the shattered earth of no man's land. Survivors were rattled with shell-shock. We remember the shedding of so much young blood and condemn the generals who sent their men to their…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 5.21" wide x 7.98" long x 1.33" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



List of Maps


Acknowledgements


Engagement



Three Armies



The Strategic Labyrinth



Planning the Attritional Battle



Preparing the Big Push



"Varying Fortune": 1 July 1916



Exploitation



The Battle of Attrition: August 1916



Behind the Lines



The Tipping Point: September 1916



Muddy Stalemate: October-December 1916



"Victory Inclining to Us"



Remobilisation



Decision in Picardy: 1918



Aftermath and Memory


Reflection


Appendix: A Note on Military Organisation, 1914-1918


Notes


Notes on Sources and Further Reading


Index