The Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields: A Comprehensive Coverage from Crecy to the World Wars

by Mary Mary and Martin Middlebrook

Book Overview

While best known as being the scene of the most terrible carnage in the WW1 the French department of the Somme has seen many other battles from Roman times to 1944. William the Conqueror launched his invasion from there; the French and English fought at Crecy in 1346; Henry V's army marched through on their way to Agincourt in 1415; the Prussians came in 1870.

The Great War saw three great battles and approximately half of the 400,000 who died...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473879078
• ISBN13: 9781473879072
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"