The 1916 Battle of the Somme: A Reappraisal - Brossura

Liddle, Peter H.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1840222409 ISBN 13: 9781840222401

Casa editrice: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000

Riassunto

Not restricted to the view of the front-line infantryman, this text also describes the experiences of the gunner, sapper, airman, medical officer, and nursing sister. The author explains how the Somme became scorched into the nation's heritage and into its historical consciousness, but with a distortion produced by a literary legacy as regrettable as it is understandable. In this book, Liddle takes issue with the judgement of some historians and with the commonly held verdict on the battle. Furthermore, in conclusion, he demonstrates how the morales of the British Expeditionary Force triumphantly survived such a long and demanding experience. The narrative draws extensiely on diaries, letters, reports, photographs and drawings from the Liddle Collection of the University of Leeds.

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• Editore: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1840222409
• ISBN 13: 9781840222401
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208