Bloody victory
the sacrifice on the Somme and the making of the twentieth century
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An analysis of one of the most iconic campaigns in history - the Battle of the Somme, in which Philpott argues that our view of the battle has been obscured by the myth of tragedy and that we need to see it as a necessary stage on a brutal war of attrition.
Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916