{"product_id":"the-first-day-on-the-somme-9780141981604","title":"The First Day on the Somme","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eA particularly vivid and personal narrative * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003ePioneering and hauntingly eloquent -- Peter Parker * Spectator *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083367457111,"sku":"9780141981604","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141981604.jpg?v=1725548694","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-first-day-on-the-somme-9780141981604","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}