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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Contents
Preface
Prelude: ‘Chewing barbed wire’
1. The prospect: ‘To break through and win victory’
2. June 1916: ‘There is much in the wind’
3. The first day of the battle: ‘Dead men can advance no further’
4. The first full week of battle: ‘It looked like victory’
5. The last three weeks of July: ‘Boys of the Bull Dog Breed’
6. Fromelles: ‘A bloody holocaust’
7. Pozières: ‘Death grinning at you from all around’
8. The battle continues: ‘A little uneasy in regard to the situation’
9. Criticism and commitment: ‘Under no circumstances must we relax our effort’
10. Both sides fight on: ‘This fantasy of woe’
11. The continuing struggle: ‘I am in God’s keeping’
12. The arrival of the tanks: ‘We are feeling top dogs’
13. The struggle intensifies: ‘Death and decomposition strew the ground’
14. October 1916: The Grand Design begins
15. The soldiers’ sacrifice: ‘What else had they been born for?’
16. The first two weeks of November: ‘The mud of the moment’
17. The final battle: ‘A light from our household is gone’
18. Aftermath on the Somme: November 1916 to November 1918
Epilogue: ‘We feel proud to be able to cry’
Maps
Appendix: Approximate size of army formations
Bibliography of Works Consulted
Also by Martin Gilbert
Acknowledgements
Index
Copyright
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