The Somme.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: July 1, 2005 | Copyright information

The Somme. Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]19.95. viii + 358 pages. ISBN 0-300-10694-7. The latest study of the Great War's most famous battle is by the same two historians who have written on the Passchendaele and, before that, on the Western Front's command. Here they argue that behind the fateful assault on Germany's western lines 'the great decisions on British strategy' had not been purely military. There had been 'significant civilian in...

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