Signallers in Lochnagar Crater, Somme
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First day of the Battle of the Somme, the most costly single day in British military history. A seven day bombardment fails to destroy the German lines and along most of the line the British make no progress. On the right of the British line XIII corps is more succesful, taking the German front line. The British suffer 57,000 casualties during the day, which comes to dominate the public image of the Battle of the Somme.
Signallers in Lochnagar Crater, Somme
The First Day on the Somme (Revised Edition), Martin Middlebrook.
A classic work that help found an entire genre of military history, combining a detailed history of the first day of the battle of the Somme with extensive extracts from eyewitness accounts of the fighting. The result is a truly excellent and moving account of the costly disaster of the First Day of the Somme, with a deserved reputation as a classic, and that hasn’t been out of print since 1971. [read full review]
Somme 1916 - Success and Failure on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, Paul Kendall.
Traces the fate of each British division to take part in the disastrous attack on the first day of the Somme, moving from north to south, so from total failure to relative success. Allows the reader to see what elements the unsuccessful attacks had in common, as well as acknowledging the more successful fighting on the British right, close to the French lines [read full review]
