Ebook {Epub PDF} The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War by Martin Gilbert

 · All told, there were more than one million casualties, with , men dead in just days. In this vivid account of one of history's most destructive battles, distinguished historian Martin Gilbert tracks the experiences of foot soldiers, generals, and everyone in between. With new photographs, journal entries, original maps, and military planning documents, The Somme is the most Edition description: First Edition. The Heroism and Horror of War. The battle of the Somme was one of the most costly battles in the history of warfare. On the first day alone, 19, British soldiers were killed and more than 36, wounded. Between 1 July , when it began at the height of summer, and 19 November , when it ended in the snow and fog of winter, more than , British, Commonwealth, French and German soldiers Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. From one of our most distinguished historians, an authoritative and vivid account of the devastating World War I battle that claimed more than , lives At am on July 1, , the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged out into no-man's-land toward the barbed wire and machine guns at the German front lines/5(42).

From one of our most distinguished historians, an authoritative and vivid account of the devastating World War I battle that claimed more than , lives At am on July 1, , the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged out into no-man's-land toward the barbed wire and machine guns at the German front lines. Sir Martin John Gilbert CBE FRSL (25 October - 3 February ) was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, bltadwin.ru was the author of eighty-eight books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish history including the bltadwin.ru was a member of the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq War. Sir Martin's eighty-eight published books are divided into eight "Book Collections" based by theme: The Multi-Volume "Official Biography" of Winston Churchill, other books Sir Martin has written about Churchill, The First World War, The Second World War, The Holocaust, Israel and Jewish History, The Twentieth Century, and the historical Atlases.

The four-month–long battle of the Somme epitomized the futile bloodletting on the western front, with 19, advancing British soldiers killed by the Germans on the very first day. From the i. Martin Gilbert, the author of more than seventy books, is Winston Churchill’s official biographer and a leading historian of the modern bltadwin.ru he was knighted “for services to British history and international relations,” and in he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the University of Oxford for the totality of his published work. In "The Some: Heroism and Horror in the First World War," Martin Gilbert presents a rather unique study of one of the bloodiest battles ever fought. The Somme is a different battle to write about in that there was so much lost, while neither side was able to gain from it. Even though the battle of the Somme is possibly the bloodiest conflict in history, there is no one to proclaim as the hero that saved the day.