THE LONG ROAD TO THE SOMME - MacDonald, Alan
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7.29 a.m., 1st July 1916. North of the River Somme the young men of two armies wait to go 'over the top'. For Britain it was the costliest day in its Army's history - 58,000 dead, wounded and missing. For France, it was a relative stroll as they took every objective within a few hours. In two volumes, The Long Road to the Somme seeks to explore, understand and, possibly, explain such dramatically different outcomes. It looks at previous wars - the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1, the Second Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War 1904-5, and the First Balkan War 1912-3 - to see what lessons were learnt…mehr

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7.29 a.m., 1st July 1916. North of the River Somme the young men of two armies wait to go 'over the top'. For Britain it was the costliest day in its Army's history - 58,000 dead, wounded and missing. For France, it was a relative stroll as they took every objective within a few hours. In two volumes, The Long Road to the Somme seeks to explore, understand and, possibly, explain such dramatically different outcomes. It looks at previous wars - the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1, the Second Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War 1904-5, and the First Balkan War 1912-3 - to see what lessons were learnt and what was ignored. It looks at politics and society, at education and training, at strategies and tactics, at how the public were conditioned to accept war as inevitable - and at the prescient men who, unlike the military commanders, accurately forecast the way in which The Great War would be fought. Volume I - Episodes - covers the period from 1870 to December 1915. Volume II - Planning the Big Push - explores the development of the Somme plan, the impact of Verdun, and the great differences in tactics employed by the two Armies on 1st July.
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Alan MacDonald is the pen name of Bill MacCormick. A musician, political organiser and opinion pollster, he became interested in World War One after discovering his grandfather's diary written in 1915 and 1916. Promoted from the ranks, Ewen MacCormick was awarded the Military Cross and seriously wounded in the Battle of the Somme in September 1916.A bass player in the 70s who performed and recorded with musicians like Robert Wyatt and Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno of Roxy Music, Bill got involved in politics in the 80s working as the London Regional organiser for the Liberal Party. He then helped form an opinion polling company which conducted the Party's market research until 1997. He was also a London Borough councillor for twelve years.He published his first book - Pro Patria Mori - in 2006 and has since written two more books about the Battle of the Somme, another about a French action in August 1914, and a memoire of his time in the music business - Making it up as you go along.