Название: Somme: Into the Breach
Автор: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Издательство: Viking
ISBN: 0674545192
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 656
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 9,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
The notion of battles as the irreducible building blocks of war demands a single verdict of each campaign victory, defeat, stalemate. But this kind of accounting leaves no room to record the nuances and twists of actual conflict. In Somme: Into the Breach, the noted military historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore shows that by turning our focus to stories of the front line to acts of heroism and moments of both terror and triumph we can counter, and even change, familiar narratives.Planned as a decisive strike but fought as a bloody battle of attrition, the Battle of the Somme claimed over a million dead or wounded in months of fighting that have long epitomized the tragedy and folly of World War I. Yet by focusing on the first-hand experiences and personal stories of both Allied and enemy soldiers, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore defies the customary framing of incompetent generals and senseless slaughter.