Twelve Days on the Somme As a soldier

As a soldier

Along the way we see places where Henry stayed

the Second World War was now anything but phoney

From medieval miseries to the idiosyncrasies of being a twenty-first-century peasant

Twelve Days on the Somme As a soldierA 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 12km. For this slight gain, a more than a million lives were lost. There were more than 400,000 British, 200,000 French, and 500,000 German casualities during the fighting. Twelve Days on the Somme is a memoir of