{"product_id":"the-first-day-on-the-somme-martin-middlebrook-9780141981604","title":"The First Day on the Somme","description":"The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian\n'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways' \nOn 1 July 1916, a continous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns. By the end of the day there were more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatal.\nMartin Middlebrook's now-classic account of the blackest day in the history of the British army draws on official sources from the time, and on the words of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror.","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67588078960928,"sku":"9780141981604","price":12.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780141981604_90887.jpg?v=1790582702","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-first-day-on-the-somme-martin-middlebrook-9780141981604","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}