MIDDLEBROOK GUIDE TO THE SOMME BATTLEFIELDS: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FROM CRECY TO THE TWO WORLD WARS.

Description:

"Since Roman timres, the French department of the Somme has witnessed many wars [battles], including Crécy (1346), Agincourt (1415), the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and, of course, the two World Wars. ... This ... guide sets out to describe every place on the Somme where there is a military cemetery, memorial, preserved trench or crater not just from the First World [Great] War but throughout the ages until the Allies swept away the Nazi armies during their 1944 advance. ..."--Jacket.

subjects: Battlefields,  Guidebooks,  History,  History, Military,  Military History,  Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916,  Somme, 2nd Battle of the, France, 1918,  World War, 1914-1918,  France, history, military,  World war, 1914-1918, battlefields,  France, guidebooks,  Campaigns,  Description and travel,  European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland),  War & defence operations,  France,  Bataille de la Somme, France, 1916,  Histoire,  Guerre mondiale 1914-1918,  Bataille de la Somme, France, 1918,  Somme, 1st Battle of the (France : 1916) fast (OCoLC)fst01125774,  Descriptions et voyages,  Veldslagen,  Somme, 2d Battle of the, 1916,  Campagnes et batailles,  World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, france,  World war, 1914-1918, campaigns

Places: France,  Somme,  Somme (France),  Somme River