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Understanding the Somme 1916 : an illuminating battlefield guide /

This is a guidebook with a difference. It is not a list of memorials and cemeteries. Its aim is to provide the reader with an understanding of the Battle of the Somme. There were some partial successes; there were many disastrous failures. In 17 concise chapters dealing with different areas of the b...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Scotland, Thomas (Thomas R.) (Autor), Heys, Steven (Steven D.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Solihull, West Midlands : Helion & Company, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Main Maps; Chapter 1: Setting the Scene; Chapter 2: Montauban and Pommiers Redoubt, 1 July 1916; Chapter 3: Mametz, 1 July 1916; Chapter 4: Fricourt, 1 July 1916; Chapter 5: La Boisselle and Ovillers, 1 July 1916; Chapter 6: The Battle in the Centre: La Boisselle, Contalmaison and Pozières; Chapter 7: The Night Attack on 14 July 1916; Chapter 8: Thiepval, 1 July 1916; Chapter 9: Mouquet Farm, Thiepval, Schwaben Redoubt and the Ancre Heights; Chapter 10: The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, 15 September 1916 and the Battles of Morval and Le Transloy. 
505 8 |a Chapter 11: The Battle of the Ancre, 13 November 1916 and the 63rd (Royal Naval) DivisionChapter 12: Y-Ravine and Beaumont-Hamel, 1 July and 13 November 1916; Chapter 13: Hawthorn Redoubt, 1 July and 13 November 1916; Chapter 14: The Sunken Road and Beaumont-Hamel, 1 July and 13 November 1916; Chapter 15: Redan Ridge, 1 July and November 1916; Chapter 16: Serre, 1 July and 13 November 1916; Chapter 17: Concluding Remarks; Selected Bibliography; Index. 
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