British on the Somme 1916
$48.88
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2016
Summary
This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army on the Somme. Not only is the book comprised of rare photographs illustrating the actions of the British army fighting on the Somme, but it is accompanied by a powerful text written by Official War Correspondent Philip Gibbs, who was an eyewitness to the events. Photographs from the battlefield illustrate the terrible conditions, which the British forces on the battlefield endured in the notoriou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473837812 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473837812 |
| Author: | Sir Philip Gibbs, Philip Gibbs |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Military |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 418g |
| Dimensions: | 189mm x 246mm |
| Series: | Images of War |
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Sir Philip Gibbs
Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs (1 May 1877-10 March 1962) was an English journalist and prolific author of books, who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. He was officially accredited as a war correspondent in 1915, and his work appeared mainly in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Chronicle. Gibbs’s wartime output was prodigious. He produced a stream of newspaper articles and a series of books: The Soul of the War (1915), The Battle of the Somme (1917), From Bapaume to Passchendaele (1918) and The Realities of War (1920).
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