Great War July 1, 1916 the First Day of the Battle of the Somme an Illustr

Name: Great War July 1, 1916 the First Day of the Battle of the Somme an Illustr
Price: 9.69 USD
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ISBN: 9780393088809

ISBN-10: 0393088804

ISBN-13: 9780393088809

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joe Sacco, Adam Hochschild, Adam Hochschild

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Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another 40,000 were wounded that first day, and there were more than one million casualties by the time the offensive halted. In The Great War, acclaimed cartoon journalist Joe Sacco depicts the events of that day in an extraordinary, 24-foot- long panorama: from General Douglas Haig and the massive artillery positions behind the trench lines to the legions of soldiers going “over the top” and getting cut down in no-man’s-land, to the tens of thousands of wounded soldiers retreating and the dead being buried en masse. Printed on fine…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/4/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 54
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.112