Maps

1. Europe on the eve of war, June 1914 272
2. The Western Front line of trenches from the North Sea to the Swiss border
3. The British Expeditionary Force sector of the front under Haig’s command
4. The Somme region before the battle
5. One battalion’s journey: Newfoundland–Britain–Gallipoli–the Somme
6. One battalion’s journey: Pont-Remy to the front line
7. Preparing for battle, April–June 1916
8. The Somme, 1 July 1916: first-day objectives and the plan for a breakthrough
9. The first day of battle, 1 July 1916
10. Gommecourt: the attack on the German trench lines, 1 July 1916
11. From Serre to Leipzig Redoubt: 1 July 1916
12. From Leipzig Redoubt to Mametz: 1 July 1916
13. The eastern sector of the British line, 1 July 1916
14. The fighting from 2 to 31 July 1916
15. The fighting in August 1916
16. The fighting in September 1916
17. The October Plan, 1916
18. The fighting in October, and from 1 to 11 November 1916
19. The fighting on the Ancre, 12–18 November 1916
20. The Somme battlefield, March 1918
21. The Somme battlefield, August 1918
22. British counties whose regiments fought on the Somme
23. Places in Britain mentioned in the text
24. Home towns and villages of some of the dead in a single Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery: Fricourt New Military Cemetery
25. Monuments and memorials, Serre to Beaumont-Hamel
26. Monuments and memorials west of Pozières
27. Monuments and memorials east of Pozières
28. Private memorials on the Somme
29. Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries from Foncquevillers to Beaumont-Hamel
30. Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries behind the lines
31. Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries from Hawthorn Ridge to Méaulte
32. Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries from Warlencourt to Carnoy
33. Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in the Somme area established as a result of the fighting in 1917–18