Tag: Somme

Free Download Jack Sheldon, "German Army on the Somme, 1914-1916"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 1844152693 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 6.5 mb
By drawing on a very large number of German sources, many of them previously unpublished, Jack Sheldon throws new light on a familiar story. In an account filled with graphic descriptions of life and death in the trenches, the author demonstrates that the dreadful losses of 1st July were a direct consequence of meticulous German planning and preparation.

Free Download John Harris, "The Somme: Death of a Generation"
English | ISBN: 1800328559 | 2022 | 0 pages | EPUB | 575 KB
The bloodiest battle in the history of the British Army.

Free Download Andrew Rawson, "Somme Offensive – March 1918"
English | 2018 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 1526723328 | EPUB | 99,5 mb
This is an account of the British Expeditionary Force’s defensive battle on the Somme in March and April of 1918. It starts with the huge German offensive along a 60 mile front on 21 March. Third and Fifth Armies then had to make a series of fighting withdrawals in which some battalions had to fight their way out while others were overrun.

Free Download Peter Simkins, "From the Somme to Victory: The British Army’s Experience on the Western Front 1916-1918"
English | 2014 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1781593124 | EPUB | 8,5 mb
Peter Simkins has established a reputation over the last forty years as one of the most original and stimulating historians of the First World War. He has made a major contribution to the debate about the performance of the British Army on the Western Front. This collection of his most perceptive and challenging essays, which concentrates on British operations in France between 1916 and 1918, shows that this reputation is richly deserved. He focuses on key aspects of the army’s performance in battle, from the first day of the Somme to the Hundred Days, and gives a fascinating insight into the developing theory and practice of the army as it struggled to find a way to break through the German line. His rigorous analysis undermines some of the common assumptions – and the myths – that still cling to the history of these British battles.

Free Download Peter Dennis, "Somme 1 July 1916: Tragedy and triumph"
English | 2006 | pages: 97 | ISBN: 1846030382 | PDF | 45,6 mb
The first day of the Battle of the Somme of World War I (1914-1918) is still on record as having the largest number of deaths in any one day in any war. This book explores the myths of this infamous battle, and the use of mines, tunnels, gas and flame-throwers by the British in combination with innovative tactics such as smoke. Andrew Robertshaw analyses the first day of the battle, explaining how British tactics developed as a result of the experience of the Somme, and provides an overview of the events along the entire front line, examining the actions of two British Corps, VIII at Serre and XIII at Montauban.

Free Download Martin Pegler, "Attack on the Somme: Haig’s Offensive 1916"
English | 2011 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 1844153975 | EPUB | 9,6 mb
The Battle of the Somme is fixed in the country’s collective memory as a disaster – probably the bloodiest episode in the catalogue of futile offensives launched by the British on the Western Front. Over five months of desperate fighting in 1916 the British wrestled with the Germans for control of a narrow strip of innocuous French countryside. When the fighting petered out the British had barely pushed back the Germans from their original positions for a combined casualty figure of over a million men. But after 80 years this notorious episode in western military history deserves to be reassessed.