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Three Armies on the Somme - The First Battle of the Twentieth Century
by Philpott, William
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- Hardcover
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- New in New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0307265854
- ISBN 13
- 9780307265852
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Alfred A. Knopf. New in New dust jacket. 2010. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 0307265854 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in new condition with no discernible wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "For decades, the Battle of the Somme has exemplified the horrors and futility of trench warfare. Yet in Three Armies on the Somme, William Philpott makes a convincing argument that the battle ultimately gave the British and French forces on the Western Front the knowledge and experience to bring World War I to a victorious end. It was the most brutal fight in a war that scarred generations. Infantrymen lined up opposite massed artillery and machine guns. Chlorine gas filled the air. The dead and dying littered the shattered earth of no mans land. Survivors were rattled with shell-shock. We remember the shedding of so much young blood and condemn the generals who sent their men to their deaths. Ever since, the Somme has been seen as a waste: even as the war continued, respected leadersWinston Churchill and David Lloyd George among themjudged the battle a pointless one. While previous histories have documented the missteps of British command, no account has fully recognized the fact that allied generals were witnessing the spontaneous evolution of warfare even as they sent their troops over the top. With his keen insight and vast knowledge of military strategy, Philpott shows that twentieth-century war as we know it simply didnt exist before the Battle of the Somme: new technologies like the armored tank made their battlefield debut, while developments in communications lagged behind commanders needs. Attrition emerged as the only means of defeating industrialized belligerents that were mobilizing all their resources for war. At the Somme, the allied armies acquired the necessary lessons of modern warfare, without which they could never have prevailed. An exciting, indispensable work of military history that challenges our received ideas about the Battle of the Somme, and about the very nature of war."; 6.5 X 1.6 X 9.6 inches; 656 pages .
Synopsis
William Philpott lectures in military history in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London. He is a specialist in the operations on the Western Front and has published extensively on the subject. He lives in London.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27256
- Title
- Three Armies on the Somme - The First Battle of the Twentieth Century
- Author
- Philpott, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st U.S. Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0307265854
- ISBN 13
- 9780307265852
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- 0307265854, World War 1, WWI, Trench Warfare, Battle on the Somme, Gas Warfare
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