The Somme, 1916: A Personal Account
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The personal account of a soldier's experiences during one of the deadliest battles in human history. Perfect for readers of World War One memoirs like Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War, Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel or Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That. On 1 July 1916, after a week-long bombardment from heavy artillery, British and French forces advanced towards German trenches on a fifteen mile front north of the Somme. Allied generals were confident that the artillery barrage would hav...






















