The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War Diary and Wilfred Owen

and Wilfred Owen

In just over a year

of World War I

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The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War Diary and Wilfred OwenDescription by Martin Gilbert Paperback At 7: 30 a. m. on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged into no man's land, toward the barbed wire and machine guns at the German front lines. In the months that followed, the fifteen mile long territory erupted into the epicenter of the Great War, marking a pivotal moment in both the war and military history as tanks first appeared on