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Originally posted by BDG
This is one of the most poignant posts i've read on the forum for ages, possibly ever.
unfortunately it is all too easy for a lot of people to forget.
Did anyone watch Channel 4 last night on the Battle of the Somme. What an absolute bloody nightmare that must have been. Over a million people from both sides killed, injured or missing. |
1st day of the Somme. Get this. 60,000 casualities in the first 24 hours, over 19,000 dead. 70% of those were killed in the first hour! And that was British and Commonwealth only.
If you want to read a book on the Somme try Lynne McDonalds book, it's called 'The Somme', it has eye witness accounts of what happened and was written when there were enough old soldiers around to tell the story.
The other one is Martin Middlebrook's book.
Ains.
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