The Somme (lydbok) av Peter Hart
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Peter Hart (forfatter), Nigel Steel (forfatter), Tim Pigott-Smith (innleser)

The Somme lydbok

260,-
On 1 July 1916, Dauglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring the end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next was a human catastrophe: scrambling over the top into the face of the German machine guns and artillery fire, almost 20,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers were killed that day alone, and twice as many wounded - the greatest loss in a single day ever sustained by the British Army. The battle did not stop there, however. It dragged on …
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Forfattere Peter Hart (forfatter), Nigel Steel (forfatter), Tim Pigott-Smith (innleser)
Utgitt 21 februar 2019
Lengde 6:30
Sjanger Historie, Dokumentar og fakta
Språk English
Format mp3
DRM-beskyttelse App-only
ISBN 9780752885599
On 1 July 1916, Dauglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring the end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next was a human catastrophe: scrambling over the top into the face of the German machine guns and artillery fire, almost 20,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers were killed that day alone, and twice as many wounded - the greatest loss in a single day ever sustained by the British Army. The battle did not stop there, however. It dragged on for another 4 months, leaving the battlefield strewn with literally hundreds of thousands of bodies. The Somme has remained a byword for the futility of war ever since. In this major new history, Peter Hart describes how the battle looked from the point of view of those who fought it. Using never-before-seen eyewitness testimonies, he shows us this epic conflict from all angles. We see what it was like for those who stayed behind in the trenches - the padres, the artillerymen, the doctors. We also see what the battle looked like from the air, as the RFC battled to keep control of the skies above the battlefield. Read by Tim Pigott-Smith (p) 2005 Orion Publishing Group