Sidney Rogerson

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Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916Paperback, 28 July 2020

Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916
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Print Length
208 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Greenhill Books
Date Published
28 Jul 2020
ISBN-10
1784385948
ISBN-13
9781784385941

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A joint operation between Britain and France in 1916, the Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany's military strength. By the end of the action, very little ground had been won: the Allied Forces had made just 12 km. For this slight gain, more than a million lives were lost.

There were more than 400,000 British, 200,000 French, and 500,000 German casualties during the fighting. Twelve Days on the Somme is a memoir of the last spell of frontline duty performed by the 2nd Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment.

Written by Sidney Rogerson, a young officer in B Company, it gives an extraordinarily frank and often moving account of what it was really like to fight through one of the most notorious battles of the First World War.

Its special message, however, is that, contrary to received assumptions and the popular works of writers like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, men could face up to the terrible ordeal such a battle presented with resilience, good humor and without loss of morale.

This is a classic work whose reprinting is long overdue. This edition includes a new introduction by Malcolm Brown and a Foreword by Rogerson's son Commander Jeremy Rogerson.

Product Details

Author:
Sidney Rogerson
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
28 July 2020
Dimensions:
18.29 x 12.19 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
1784385948
ISBN-13:
9781784385941
Language:
English
Pages:
208
Publisher:
Weight:
199.58 gm

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