Somme 1916 – A Battlefield Companion

Title: Somme 1916 – A Battlefield Companion

Author: Gliddon, Gerald

Condition: Near Mint

Edition: 3rd Edition

Publication Date: 2006

ISBN: 0750936908

Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 550 pages

Comments: Gerald Gliddon’s classic survey of the Somme battlefield in 1916, first published in 1987 to great acclaim, has been greatly expanded and updated to include the latest research and analysis.

Supported by a wide selection of archive photographs and drawing on the testimony of those who took part, this new edition covers both the famous battle sites, such as High Wood and Mametz Wood and lesser known villages on the outlying flanks. It includes a day-by-day account of the British build-up on the Somme and the ensuing struggle, British and German orders of battle and a full history of the cemeteries and memorials, both ‘lost’ and current, that sprang up in the years following the First World War.

The author also provides thumbnail biographies of all the senior officers to fall, as well as the winners of the Victoria Cross and those who were ‘shot at dawn’. In addition, Somme ‘personalities’ such as George Butterworth are covered in far greater detail than before.