Attack on the Somme: Haig's Offensive 1916 by Martin Pegler

Attack on the Somme: Haig's Offensive 1916 by Martin Pegler

The Battle of the Somme is fixed in the country's collective memory as a disaster - probably the most bloody episode in the catalogue of futile offensives launched by the British on the Western Front. Over five months of desperate fighting in 1916 the British wrestled with the Germans for control of a narrow strip of innocuous French countryside. When the fighting petered out the British had barely pushed back the Germans from their original positions for a combined casualty figure of over a million men. But after 80 years this notorious episode in western military history deserves to be reassessed. Previously unpublished eyewitness accounts are used to give a fascinating first-hand view of the immediate experience of the fighting. As Martin Pegler shows, a revision in our assessment of the Somme, in particular of the tactics and the weaponry employed by the combatants, is overdue, and he challenges the traditional assumptions about the course of the battle and its future impact on the development of warfare.

Martin M. Pegler has over fifty years of experience in the field of visual merchandising and retail design, and has written and edited over seventy books. He is an international lecturer on display, visual merchandising, and store design, as well as the editor of Retail Design International, a quarterly publication.

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ISBN 13	9781844153978
ISBN 10	1844153975
Title	Attack on the Somme: Haig's Offensive 1916
Author	Martin Pegler
Series	Campaign Chronicles Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published	2006-02-08
Number of pages	208
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