mass market paperback. pages browning ow g,small scratch on front. WWI. The Battle of the Somme 1 July 1916. The climax of Haig's plan to break the deadlock of trench warfare on the Western front. It foundered at the cost of 20,000 British soldiers killed and 35,000 wounded. An analysis of the policy, planning and action of the British and French armies.

1963, Consul, , ,< D-02>,176pp , , , CARD
Subject...World War I - Western Front
Web No. 13569-03..............................£3.00 

A classic Battlefield Guide from 'After the Battle'. In this revised edition John Giles has succeeded in recapturing the atmosphere of an era when men fought savage battles in and around water-filled trenches, amongst the stinking litter of war. Eye-witness accounts of the bitter fighting are blended with contemporary photographs and comparison pictures taken by the author of the same places today. The result is a salute to all those men who marched along the roads of Picardy to the trenches of the Somme battleground, many of whom never returned.

1996, After the Battle, , 090091341X,< D-02>,Large landscape format, 154pp, 300 illustrations & maps, Good in dw, ,
Subject...World War I - Western Front
Web No. 7623-01..............................£12.00 

From Mons in 1914 to the liberation of the town in 1918 by the forces of the British Army. Includes the Battles of Mons, Le Cateau, Marne, Aisne, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Arras in 1917 and Cambrai plus the German 1918 offensive.

1992, After the Battle, , 0900913711,< D-02>,272pp, 511 ills. Landscape format., Edgecreassed dw. text and boards good, ,
Subject...World War I - Western Front
Web No. 10531-01..............................£14.00 

The first time all four divisions of the Canadian Corps attacked together. The assault on the strongest natural fortress on the Western Front. This is a special publication that comemorates the battle. French text

1992, Art Global, Monteal, , 0660936542,< D-02>,Large Format 151pp photos maps, dw rubbed and chipped ow vg, 0,
Subject...World War I - Western Front
Web No. 14990-01..............................£28.00 

The campaigns and battles of the British Expeditionary Force in France in WWI from Mons to Ypres.

1916, Hurst & Blackett, 10th edn, ,< D-02>,vii + 312pp, 4 maps - inc 2 extending, red cloth, rubbed at extremities, gilt titles, g, ,
Subject...World War I - Western Front
Web No. 17911-01..............................£16.00 

On 1 July 1916, Douglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring an end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next was a human catastrophe: scrambling over the top into the face of the German machine guns and artillery fire, almost 20,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers were killed that day alone, and twice as many wounded - the greatest loss in a single day ever sustained by the British Army. The battle did not stop there, however. It dragged on for another 4 months, leaving the battlefield strewn with literally hundreds of thousands of bodies

2005, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, , 9780297847058,< D-02>,589pp. Photographs. Maps., Page edges browning and some fading on spine. Very good in dw, ,
Subject...World War I - Western Front
Web No. 24691-01..............................£10.00 

The author joined the Army in 1917 and served in the ranks of the Infantry during the battles of 1918. A personal account of the last months of the Great War.

1968, William Kimber, , 071830151X,< D-02>,172pp, 18 ills, map & diagram, dw wn, rubbing on fep ow good, ,
Subject...World War I - Western Front
Web No. 19075-02..............................£10.00 

Originally published c.1915 this is the English edition of a description by a Swedish observer of his time with the German Army during the early part of the first World War. Criticised in the English press the publisher has written an explanatory note of his reason for publishing in which he states that the veracity of the facts are indisputable whilst the authors 'anti-English' opinions, whilst irritating to the British subject, will not affect the British cause.

, John Lane,The Bodley Head, , ,< D-02>,402pp maps ills, boards worn, foxing on endpapers. Good, ,
Subject...World War I - Western Front
Web No. 4422-01..............................£30.00 

The memoirs of Thomas James Higgins written from notes and diaries from the Great War. They take the reader from the outbreak of the war, until March 1919 when Higgins was discharged after spending 18 months as a Prisoner of War. He describes joining the North Stafforshire regiment, the crossing to France, his first experiences in the trenches, and life behind the lines. He took part in the action at Gommecourt on July 1st 1916, and in April 1917, he moved to the Lens areas. On July 1st 1917 he was taken prisoner. Higgins recounts his suffering in captivity, and his bitter reactions to the treatment of returning soldiers after the war. Signed by the publisher - the author's grandson

2006, Private Publication, Published by Alan Henry Higgins, 1904546501,< D-02>,125pp, illustrations., New in card cover, , CARD
Subject...World War I - Western Front
Web No. 33809-01..............................£8.95 

The course of World War I as fought on the Western Front. The author examines the creation of the front, the difficulties of supply and looks at Verdun, the defining battle of the French Army, the Somme, the French mutinies and Passchendaele.

1999, BBC Publications, , 056338493X,< D-02>,224pp, numerous ills, maps, Further Reading, index, vg in rubbed dw, ,
Subject...World War I - Western Front
Web No. 29780-01..............................£10.00