Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century Local Authors & Illustrators to fight a war he

to fight a war he no longer believes in

Germany and its self-depicted hero

with nations seeking to decide military outcomes off the ground

Heather Streets-Salter reveals how the war shaped the region's political

Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century Local Authors & Illustrators to fight a war heDescription by William Philpott Paperback For decades, the Battle of the Somme has exemplified the horrors and futility of trench warfare. Here William Philpott argues that the battle ultimately gave the British and French forces on the Western Front the knowledge and experience to bring World War I to a victorious end. Philpott shows that twentieth century war as we know it simply didnt exist before the battle: new technologies like the armored tank