The battles of World War I were fought on an unprecedented scale. Both sides made use of industrial technology to inflict horrendous numbers of casualties on the other and armies composed of millions of men confronted each other in cataclysmic encounters, the like of which had never been seen before
Extracts from a World War 1 Diary: The Battle of the Somme
โ Scribed by Hancock, Albert Joseph ;Mitchell, R.A.
- Book ID
- 114825817
- Publisher
- Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
- Year
- 1995
- Weight
- 510 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0726-4240
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