Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916

Written by Sidney Rogerson

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Book condition

This book is brand new

Book details

Hardback:

172 pages

Publisher:

Greenhill Books

Language:

English

ISBN:

9781853676802

Book description

Sidney Rogerson,

Introduction by Malcolm Brown…..

A joint operation between Britain and France in 1916, the Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany’s military strength. By the end of the action, very little ground had been won: the Allied Forces had made just 12km. For this slight gain, a more than a million lives were lost. There were more than 400,000 British, 200,000 French, and 500,000 German casualities during the fighting. Twelve Days on the Somme is a memoir of the last spell of front-line duty performed by the 2nd Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment. Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916 is written by Sidney Rogerson, a young officer in B Company, it gives an extraordinarily frank and often moving account of what it was really like to fight through one of most notorious battles of the First World War. Its special message, however, is that, contrary to received assumptions, men could face up to the terrible ordeal such a battle presented with resilience, good humour and without loss of morale. This is a classic work whose reprinting is long overdue..