THE SOMME THEN AND NOW
John Giles
This book is a magnificent salute to the infantrymen
of World War I.
EAST KENT MERCURY
In this revised edition of The Somme Then and Now, published on the 70th
anniversary of the start of the 'Big Push', John Giles has succeeded in
recapturing the atmosphere of an era when men fought savage battles in and
around water-filled trenches amongst the stinking litter of war.Eye-witness
accounts of the bitter fighting are blended with contemporary photographs and
comparison pictures taken by the author of the same spots today. The result is a
salute to all those men who marched along the roads of Picardy, from Amiens and
the surrounding camps, through the ruined town of Albert and onwards to the
trenches of the Somme battleground. Sadly for so many of them, there was no
return.
ISBN 0 900913 41 X
SIZE 8½"Χ10½"
154 PAGES
300
ILLUSTRATIONS
£22.95
CODE F011
COMPLETE CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
INTRODUCTION TO REVISED EDITION
THE PLAN AND PREPARATIONS
A TOWN CALLED
ALBERT
'IN THE EVENT OF MY DEATH'
PART 1
THE ATTACK IS LAUNCHED
Fonquevillers and
Gommecourt
Serre (including 'A Day to Remember')
Beaumont
Hamel
Newfoundland Memorial Park
Beaucourt Hamel and The
Ancre
Thiepval, Schwaben Redoubt and Leipzig Redoubt
Ovillers-la-Boisselle
and La Boisselle
Fricourt
Mametz
Carnoy and
Montauban
Casualties of 1st July
PART 2
THE FOLLOWING DAYS
Mametz Wood
Contalmaison
Trones
Wood
THE BREAKING OF THE GERMAN SECOND LINE POSITION
(The
Battle of Bazentin Ridge)
Longueval and Delville Wood
High
Wood
'A Last Letter'
Waterlot Farm
Poziθres
Guillemont
Ginchy
THE DEBUT OF THE TANKS
THE BATTLE OF FLERS-COURCELETTE
Flers
Martinpuich
Courcelette
THE BATTLE OF MORVAL (including Combles)
THIEPVAL FALLS AT LAST (including Mouquet Farm)
THE CONCLUDING WEEKS
THE BATTLE OF THE ANCRE
TO SUM UP
TOTAL CASUALTIES OF THE SOMME OFFENSIVE
PART 3
WINTER OF DISCONTENT
THE GERMAN RETREAT TO THE HINDENBURG LINE
(including
Bapaume and Peronne)
THE INTERLUDE
1918 THE GERMAN 'PUSH' (OPERATION MICHAEL)
AMIENS 1918 THE BEGINNING OF THE END
PART 4
THE SOMME TODAY
The Western Front Then
And Now
Flanders Then And Now
FRANCE AND FLANDERS PRESENTATION BOXED SET COMPRISING:
THE SOMME
THEN AND NOW
FLANDERS THEN AND NOW
THE WESTERN FRONT THEN AND NOW
All three volumes in presentation slip case
ISBN 0 900913 93 2
£70.85
CODE
F037
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