Название: 24 Hours at the Somme: 1 July 1916
Автор: Robert Kershaw
Издательство: Ebury Press
ISBN: 9780753555477
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 448
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 5,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
One hundreds years after Battle of the Somme, Robert Kershaw attempts to understand the carnage, using the voices of the British and German soldiers who lived through that awful day. In the early hours of July 1, 1916, the British General staff placed its faith in patriotism and guts, believing that one "Big Push" would bring on the end of the Great War. By sunset, there were 57,470 men—more than half the size of the present-day British Army—who lay dead, missing or wounded. On that day hope died. Juxtaposing the British trench view against that from the German parapet, Kershaw draws on eyewitness accounts, memories and letters to expose the true horror of that day.