Contents

Foreword

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Abbreviations

Introduction and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 ‘Everyman at War’ Revisited

Chapter 2 The Lessons and Legacy of the Somme: Changing Historical Perspectives

Chapter 3 The Performance of New Army Divisions on the Somme, 1916

Chapter 4 A Key Point in the Learning Process?: The 18th (Eastern) Division and the Capture of Thiepval, September 1916

Chapter 5 Somme Footnote: The Battle of the Ancre and the Struggle for Frankfort Trench, November 1916

Chapter 6 ‘The Absolute Limit’: British Divisions at Villers-Bretonneux, 1918

Chapter 7 ‘Somewhat Ambitious’: V Corps and the Recapture of Thiepval and the Ancre Heights, August 1918

Chapter 8 ‘Up the Sharp End’: The Experience of the 12th (Eastern) Division in the Hundred Days, August–November 1918

Notes

Sources and Bibliography