The Somme battlefields
a comprehensive guide from Crécy to the two World Wars
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Contributions
- Middlebrook, Mary. - Contributor
Publication
1994 - Penguin, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
96,250 words, Guess
Page Count
385 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesommebattlefield0000midd_w7e6
- Internet Archivesommebattlefield0000midd_e4l0
- ISBN-100140128476
- ISBN-139780140128475
- Goodreads1697288
and 4 more
- Better World BooksKO-924-781
- Better World Books9780140128475
- Better World BooksKO-025-189
- Open LibraryOL22132057M
Classifications
- DDC940.4272
- LCCDC611.S8 M54 1994
- LCCD545.S7 M54 2007
and 1 more
- LCCDC611.S8 M54 1991
Description
"Since Roman timres, the French department of the Somme has witnessed many wars [battles], including Crécy (1346), Agincourt (1415), the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and, of course, the two World Wars. ... This ... guide sets out to describe every place on the Somme where there is a military cemetery, memorial, preserved trench or crater not just from the First World [Great] War but throughout the ages until the Allies swept away the Nazi armies during their 1944 advance. ..."--Jacket.
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