Somme
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the blood-soaked fields of northern France during the summer of 1916, the Battle of the Somme unfolded as one of the most catastrophic military engagements in human history — a single day on July 1st claiming nearly 60,000 British casualties, a wound on the national consciousness that has never fully healed. Lyn Macdonald's Somme chronicles this devastating campaign not through the cold lens of strategy and statistics, but through the raw, unfiltered testimonies of the soldiers, nurses, and civilians who lived and died within it, reconstructing the human scale of industrial warfare with shattering clarity. Macdonald's signature oral history methodology transforms the battlefield into a chorus of individual voices, rescuing personal narratives from the fog of official record and presenting a ground-level portrait of courage, terror, and endurance. Her meticulous research and compassionate storytelling cement Somme as an indispensable work of Great War literature — one that compels the reader to confront not just what happened on the Somme, but what it cost in the most human terms imaginable.
Author: Lyn Macdonald
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Book Club Associates
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the blood-soaked fields of northern France during the summer of 1916, the Battle of the Somme unfolded as one of the most catastrophic military engagements in human history — a single day on July 1st claiming nearly 60,000 British casualties, a wound on the national consciousness that has never fully healed. Lyn Macdonald's Somme chronicles this devastating campaign not through the cold lens of strategy and statistics, but through the raw, unfiltered testimonies of the soldiers, nurses, and civilians who lived and died within it, reconstructing the human scale of industrial warfare with shattering clarity. Macdonald's signature oral history methodology transforms the battlefield into a chorus of individual voices, rescuing personal narratives from the fog of official record and presenting a ground-level portrait of courage, terror, and endurance. Her meticulous research and compassionate storytelling cement Somme as an indispensable work of Great War literature — one that compels the reader to confront not just what happened on the Somme, but what it cost in the most human terms imaginable.