"Since Roman timres, the French department of the Somme has witnessed many wars [battles], including Crécy (1346), Agincourt (1415), the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and, of course, the two World Wars. ... This ... guide sets out to describe every place on the Somme where there is a military cemetery, memorial, preserved trench or crater not just from the First World [Great] War but throughout the ages until the Allies swept away the Nazi armies during their 1944 advance. ..."--Jacket.
Genres
- Battlefields
- Guidebooks
- History
- History, Military
- Military History
- Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916
- Somme, 2nd Battle of the, France, 1918
- World War, 1914-1918
- France, history, military
- World war, 1914-1918, battlefields
- France, guidebooks
- Campaigns
- Description and travel
- European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)
- War & defence operations
- France
- Bataille de la Somme, France, 1916
- Histoire
- Guerre mondiale 1914-1918
- Bataille de la Somme, France, 1918
- Somme, 1st Battle of the (France : 1916) fast (OCoLC)fst01125774
- Descriptions et voyages
- Veldslagen
- Somme, 2d Battle of the, 1916
- Campagnes et batailles
- World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, france
- World war, 1914-1918, campaigns
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