Название: Attack on the Somme: Haig's Offensive 1916 (Campaign Chronicles)
Автор: Martin Pegler
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844153975
Год: 2006
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 192
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 6,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
The Battle of the Somme is fixed in the country's collective memory as a disaster - probably the bloodiest 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.