{"product_id":"martin-middlebrook-the-first-day-on-the-somme-2016","title":"Martin Middlebrook: The First Day On The Somme [2016]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'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' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"Middlebrook, Martin","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51800835916115,"sku":"9780141981604","price":19.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/middlebrook-martin-martin-middlebrook-the-first-day-on-the-somme-2016-9780141981604-1191288770.jpg?v=1757027132","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/martin-middlebrook-the-first-day-on-the-somme-2016","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}