Elegy - The First Day on the Somme

Zusatztext Highly emotive reading' History of War . Informationen zum Autor Andrew Roberts is the author of Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West (which won the International Churchill Society Book Award) and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 (which won the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Book Award). His other books include Napoleon and Wellington, Eminent Chuchillians and Salisbury, which won the Wolfson History Prize. His latest book, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, won the British Army Military Book of the Year for 2010. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a PhD in History from Cambridge University. Klappentext One of our finest narrative historians tells the shattering story of the blackest day in the history of the British army: the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916. Zusammenfassung One of our finest narrative historians tells the shattering story of the blackest day in the history of the British army: the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Roberts
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2015
• EAN: 9781784080013
• ISBN: 978-1-78408-001-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 223 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; History: specific events and topics, Non Fiction, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I