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Somme
A river and department in northern France, and the site of the Battle of the Somme, fought by British and French forces against Germany from 1 July to 18 November 1916. More than three million men fought in it, and over one million were wounded or killed, making it one of the deadliest battles in history.
Mentioned in
- Chapter IV Deadlock §1 Why the Trenches? Firepower and the Shell Crisis§2 The Western Front: From Neuve Chapelle to Loos
- Chapter V The Year of Attrition Overview§1 The Plan for 1916: Chantilly§3 Verdun II: The Sacred Way and the Long Grind§5 The Easter Rising§8 The Somme I: The First Day§9 The Somme II: From Bazentin to the Ancre§10 Romania's Gamble and Germany's New Masters
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions §4 Arras, Vimy and the Chemin des Dames§8 Cambrai: The Tanks Break Through, and Back
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble §3 Operation Michael: The Kaiser's Battle§4 Georgette, the Marne, and Why It Failed§6 Amiens: The Black Day of the German Army§7 The Hundred Days: Breaking the Hindenburg Line
- Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking §10 Remembering the Dead, and the Road to 1939
- Chapter IX In the Trenches §1 Anatomy of a Trench System§3 No Man's Land: Patrols, Raids and Wiring Parties§5 Going Over the Top§6 Wounds and the Chain of Evacuation§8 Letters, Leave, Faith and Laughter
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §1 Rifles and Machine Guns§2 Artillery: The True Killer§4 Tanks: From Landships to Whippets§5 Mining and Tunnelling: The War Beneath§6 The Learning Curve: From Lines to Combined Arms
- Chapter XII The Home Fronts §1 Total War and the Rise of the State§2 Conscription and Its Politics§9 Culture, Art and the Making of Memory