{"product_id":"9780141981604","title":"The First Day on the Somme : 1 July 1916","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Middlebrook, Martin \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 31\/03\/2016,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 464 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141981604,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways' On 1 July 1916, a continous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns. By the end of the day there were more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Middlebrook's now-classic account of the blackest day in the history of the British army draws on official sources from the time, and on the words of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697849860140,"sku":"9780141981604","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780141981604.jpg?v=1722604304","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780141981604","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}