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Somme 1 July 1916: Tragedy and Triumph.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robertshaw, Andrew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Area Studies: European Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Area Studies: European Studies.
- Summary:
- The first day of the battle of the Somme, has always been perceived as a day of tragedy for the British Army, with the slaughter of 60,000 men on the battlefield. What was deemed to be poor planning on the part of the British command meant that soldiers were sent into no man's land to face the horrors of uncut barbed wire and waves of German machine gun fire. However, there were triumphs amongst the tragedy. This book discusses the successes and failures of the British and the German forces along the frontline. It also offers a detailed account of the battle itself, following the actions of individual units throughout the day.
- Contents:
- Origins of the Campaign 7
- Opening moves
- Options to end trench stalemate
- The failed offensives of 1915
- Plans for 1916 - towards the Somme
- The place of the Somme in Allied strategy
- 1914
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917
- 1918
- Opposing Commanders 15
- German commanders
- British commanders
- French commanders
- Opposing Forces 21
- The German Army
- The British Army
- The French Army
- Orders of battle
- Opposing Plans 31
- German plans for defence on the Somme
- The British Army's plan of attack
- Preparing for Z Day - artillery, barbed wire and dugouts
- French plans
- 1 July 1916 41
- Third Army: Gommecourt
- Serre and Beaumont Hamel
- Thiepval
- Ovillers and La Boisselle
- Fricourt and Mametz
- Montauban
- The French sector
- South of the Somme
- The German experience
- The situation at the end of the day
- Aftermath 78
- A military disaster?
- Lessons of the Somme 78
- The Battlefield Today 88.
- ISBN:
- 9781846030383
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