Product Description

This is a guided tour of the most important battlefields of World War I. Martin Middlebrook's analysis and coverage of the day battles is divided into sections, each containing detailed military accounts, historical background and the memories of writers, poets and soldiers who fought at the Somme. The book also contains descriptions of places to visit on the way from the Channel ports to battlefields of the Somme.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #408463 in Books
• Published on: 1994-06-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

Battelfield Tour
This is an excellant follow-up to his classic work The First Day on the Somme. Concentrates on the numerous Commonwealth War Graves which abound in the area, there are almost two hundred of them! Gives good account of the actions which took part within the vicinity of the Cemeteries so the reader can develop a good understanding of what the battle was all about. Like his previous book, this is an intensely moving read.

A Somme Summer
This book proved invaluable on a whistle-stop tour of the 1915 area in June 2000. The book provides the reader with enough information to tantalise the imagination. With a good Michelin map the memorials and cemeteries are easily found. I went to Louvencourt having read Vera Brittain's "Letters from a lost generation" to pay respects to Roland.