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First published in 2016
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Copyright © Gallipoli Ltd 2016
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ISBN 978-1-77554-040-3 (print)
ISBN 978-1-77549-077-7 (online)
National Library of New Zealand cataloguing-in-publication data:
Macdonald, Andrew, 1973-
First day of the Somme : the complete account of Britain’s worst
-ever military disaster / Andrew Macdonald.
1. Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916. 2. World War, 1914–1918
—Campaigns—France—Somme. 3. World War, 1914–1918—
Battlefields—France. I. Title.
940.4272—dc 23
Front cover image: A wounded British soldier with his German captor
(author’s collection)
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