The year 1916 long will be remembered as the beginning of modern mass-death warfare where tanks and other industrial products quickly overran traditional troop formations. A new analysis of the notorious Battle of the Somme, using archives from both sides not previously available, finds some positive outcomes: the battle may have hurt the Germans even more than the British, and it taught an inexperienced British army the hard way how to fight a modern war.
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The year 1916 long will be remembered as the beginning of modern mass-death warfare where tanks and other industrial products quickly overran traditional troop formations. A new analysis of the notorious Battle of the Somme, using archives from both sides not previously available, finds some positive outcomes: the battle may have hurt the Germans even more than the British, and it taught an inexperienced British army the hard way how to fight a modern war.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Seller # BBRE205, Hardcover with a Dust Jacket, 192 pages, 5.7 inches by 8.89 inches. Minor soiling and wear to the dust jacket mostly along the edges, but No actual tears. Minor wear only to the book itself. The hinges and binding are good and the interior pages are clean and unmarked. NOT an Ex-Library copy. This is a detailed account of the July 1916 battle in which the British sustained 60, 000 casualties on the first day and cost the lives of one million British, French and German soldiers over four and a half months.
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Very Fine in Very Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 192pp., Index. Illustrated with photographs and maps. First English edition. An account of the strategies which led to battle, the actual campaign as it was fought, and the consequences for the future conduct of the war. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy--as new. Very fin in a very fine dust-jacket.
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