Somme : into the breach / Hugh Sebag-Montefiore.
Somme : into the breach / Hugh Sebag-Montefiore.
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Publisher
[London] : Viking, 2016.
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G 2016/3820
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Language
English
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Physical content
xlviii, 607 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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text
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cartographic image
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Great Expectations -- 2.Paradise Lost -- 3.A Gentleman's Agreement -- 4.The Build-Up -- 5.Fatal Flaw -- 6.The First Blows -- 7.False Dawn -- 8.Hunter-Bunter's Folly -- 9.Rattling the Cage -- 10.Neither Fish Nor Fowl -- 11.Achilles Heel -- 12.An Opportunity Missed -...
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Publisher
[London] : Viking, 2016.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2016.
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Summary
The notion of battles as the irreducible building blocks of war demands a single verdict of each campaign--victory, defeat, stalemate. But this kind of accounting leaves no room to record the nuances and twists of actual conflict. In Somme: Into the Breach, the noted military historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore shows that by turning our focus to storie...
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Somme : into the breach / Hugh Sebag-Montefiore.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2016/3820
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74VKVqBWxLAl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVqBWxLAl
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ISBN
0670918385 hardback
9780670918386 hardback
DDC
940.4272
MMS ID
991024011018702626
