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1	The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front more books like this by Peter Hart add to wishlist On July 1, 1916, the British Army launched the "Big Push" that was supposed to bring an end to the horrific stalemate on the Western Front. What resulted was one of the greatest single human catastrophes in 20th-century warfare. "The Somme" presents the definitive account of one of the bloodiest battles in world history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| SVS
2	The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War more books like this by Sir Martin Gilbert add to wishlist From one of our most distinguished historians, an authoritative and vivid account of the devastating World War I battle that claimed more than 300,000 lives At 7:30 am on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged out into no-man's-land toward the barbed wire and machine guns ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.90! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The German Army on the Somme 1914-1916 more books like this by Jack Sheldon add to wishlist By drawing on a very large number of German sources, many of them previously unpublished, Jack Sheldon throws new light on a familiar story. In an account filled with graphic descriptions of life and death in the trenches, the author demonstrates that the dreadful losses of 1st July were a direct consequence of meticulous German planning and ... see all copies from $10.99! new only from $23.62! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Missing of the Somme more books like this by Geoff Dyer add to wishlist This work was written by someone who was born after the two world wars and who, like everyone of his and subsequent generations, have been brought up on the myth and memory of war. In this examination of the poems, memorials, memoirs, photographs, histories and documentaries of World War I, this book brings together a network of memory that ... see all copies from $18.78! new only from $21.99! \| first editions
5	The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 more books like this by Martin Middlebrook add to wishlist A thorough and detailed survey of the events of the first of July 1916 including not only official records and information gleaned from regimental histories but also using first hand accounts from both German and British survivors. see all copies from $3.56! new only from $16.84! \| first editions
6	The Somme more books like this by Gary Sheffield, Richard Holmes (Foreword by) add to wishlist On 1 July 1916, after a stupendous 7-day artillery preparation, the British Army finally launched its attack on the German line around the River Somme. Over the next four and half months they continued to attack, with little or no gain, and with horrendous losses to both sides. This book, written by the world's foremost expert in the subject, ... see all copies from $2.13! new only from $5.75! \| first editions
7	Somme more books like this by Lyn Macdonald add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.13! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The 1916 Battle of the Somme: A Reappraisal more books like this by Peter Liddle add to wishlist Not restricted to the view of the front-line infantryman, this text also describes the experiences of the gunner, sapper, airman, medical officer, and nursing sister. The author explains how the Somme became scorched into the nation's heritage and into its historical consciousness, but with a distortion produced by a literary legacy as regrettable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Somme more books like this by Dr. Robin Prior, Professor Trevor Wilson add to wishlist In the long history of the British Army, the Battle of the Somme was its bloodiest encounter. Between July 1 and mid-November 1916, 432,000 of its soldiers became casualties - about 3,600 for every day of battle. German casualties were far fewer despite British superiority in the air and in lethal artillery. What went wrong for the British, and ... see all copies from $3.33! new only from $7.66! \| first editions
10	The Middle Parts of Fortune Somme and Ancre 1916 more books like this by Frederic Manning add to wishlist First published anonymously in 1929, this book was from the start an underground classic, considered by Hemmingway, Eliot, Pound, T.E.Lawrence, and Arnold Bennett as the ultimate novel of trench warfare, evoking the horror, brutality, futility, nobility, and courage of war. see all copies from $3.39! new only from $10.32! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Somme: Then and Now - A Visual History more books like this by Duncan Youel, David Edgell add to wishlist see all copies from $11.45! new only from $19.53! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Somme more books like this by Peter Hart add to wishlist On 1 July 1916, Douglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring an end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next was a human catastrophe: scrambling over the top into the face of the German machine guns and artillery fire, almost 20,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers were killed that day alone, and ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $9.69! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme: A Play more books like this by Frank McGuinness add to wishlist A drama set during one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. see all copies from $2.09! new only from $10.14!
14 view cover	Somme 1 July 1916: Tragedy and Triumph more books like this by Andrew Robertshaw, Peter Dennis (Illustrator) add to wishlist Somme is still on record as the largest number of deaths in any one day in any war. This book explores the myths of this infamous battle and explains the underlying causes of the conflict, as well as the use of mines, tunnels, gas and flame throwers by the British in combination with innovative tactics such as smoke. Covering the first day of the ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $4.18! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Old Front Line more books like this by John Masefield add to wishlist July 1st 1916 is a date that remains embedded in the British folk memory. It was the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the day on which British and Empire troops suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, a third of them fatal. In this evocative classic memoir John Masefield, the future Poet Laureate, describes the battleground over which the armies ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $9.96! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Hell They Called High Wood: The Somme 1916 more books like this by Terry Norman add to wishlist Using first hand experiences of participants, this is an account of the confrontation at High Wood in the Somme Campaign of 1916. It discusses the problems of High Command and how some decisions inevitably led to more slaughter at High Wood. see all copies from $9.32! new only from $19.14! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Somme, Including Also the Coward more books like this by A D Gristwood, Hugh Cecil (Introduction by), H G Wells (Preface by) add to wishlist First published in London in 1927, "The Somme" and its companion, "The Coward", constitute the only published literary achievements of A. D. Gristwood, a reluctant accountant turned even more reluctant infantryman in the London Rifle Brigade who later fell under the tutelage of H. G. Wells. Heavily autobiographical and much influenced by Wells's ... see all copies from $25.34! new only from $25.34! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Somme more books like this by Anthony Farrar-Hockley add to wishlist From July to November 1916, the Somme was the scene of a series of military engagements, interspersed with trench actions. This book tells the story of the conflict, which came to be recorded by historians as the graveyard of the "flower of British manhood". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.50! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Somme more books like this by Lyn McDonald, Lyn MacDonald add to wishlist see all copies from $8.52!
20 view cover	Bringing Uncle Albert Home: A Soldier's Tale more books like this by David P Whithorn add to wishlist Private Albert Turley was just an ordinary British soldier of the First World War. He died on the Somme for King and Country. He didn't win any medals for gallantry and has no known grave. Like thousands more soldiers whose names fill local war memorials the length of the country, he left neither letters nor diaries from which to reconstruct his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.25! \| first editions
21 view cover	The First Day on the Somme more books like this by Martin Middlebrook add to wishlist This World War I military history was first published in 1971, and is considered a classic. It describes the horror of war as it was experienced on July 1, 1916. Middleton describes in minute detail how over 20,000 British soldiers lost their lives, and another 37,000 were injured on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. see all copies from $14.99! new only from $23.60! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Somme then and now more books like this by John Giles add to wishlist Drawing on eyewitness accounts as well as contemporary and modern photographs, this book explores the conditions and conflicts endured by the men who marched through to the fateful battleground. see all copies from $24.00! new only from $31.52! \| first editions
23 view cover	Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes more books like this by Ann Dumas, Mr. Richard Kendall, Flemming Friborg add to wishlist Edgar Degas is regarded, above all, as a painter of the human figure and of city life, and yet both his early notebooks and the practice of his later years attest to his consistent interest in landscape painting. In tracing Degas's response to landscape, including, most notably, his visits to the small resort of Saint-Valiry-sur-Somme, in Picardy, ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Fierce Light: The Battle of the Somme, July-November 1916: Prose and Poetry more books like this by Anne Powell add to wishlist see all copies from $3.04! new only from $22.69!
25 view cover	Advance to Victory 1918: Somme more books like this by Michael Stedman add to wishlist By August 1918 the "British" Sector of the Western Front should really have been called the "English-speaking" Sector. An exhausted Great Britain was down to its last reserves and most of the British command's offensive capabilities lay with Canadian, Australian and New Zealand troops, and the newly-arriving Americans. Knowing that the Germans ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $12.86!

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