Monographie

Elegy : the first day on the Somme / Andrew Roberts

Type de contenu

• Texte

Type de médiation

• sans médiation

Type de support

• Volume

Titre(s)

• Elegy : the first day on the Somme / Andrew Roberts

Auteur(s)

• Roberts, Andrew (1963-....) historien

Publication

• London : Head of Zeus, 2016

Description matérielle

• 1 vol. (291 pages) : ill., cartes, photogr., portr. ; 20 cm

ISBN

• 1-78408-002-0
• 978-1-78408-002-0

EAN

• 9781784080020 br.

Classification décimale Dewey

• 940.427 2

Note sur les bibliographies et les index

• Bibliographie pages 267-270. Index

Résumé ou extrait

• La 4e de couv. indique : "July 1, 1916. In the rolling countryside by the river Somme, British troops rose from their front-line trenches at 7.30am on a beautiful summer's day. They prepared for an offensive on German lines, after a week-long bombardment was supposed to have destroyed the enemy's barbed-wire and trenches. Yet before the sun went down, 57,471 of these men were casualties. The wire had not been cut; the German machine gunners had been waiting. It was the worst day in the history of the British Army. Andrew Roberts evokes the pity and horror of that terrible morning with a masterly grasp of the military relaities that led to such a disaster. His moving book is above all the story of how tens of thousands of ordinary men trudged stoically to their deaths."

Sujet - Nom commun

• Bataille de la Somme (1916)

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