The Battles of the Somme (1917) By Philip Gibbs
 
Gibb's 1917 book which gathered 39 of his uniquely perceptive and vividly written articles written as a war correspondent after July 1, 1916 when hundreds of thousands of British troops rose out of the ditches. . . and began a series of battles as fierce and bloody as anything the old earth has seen on such a stretch of ground since the beginning of human strife. The work ends in October 1916, after covering every detail of the great summer offensive. large foldout map.
 
1st edition
 
Contains an unknown inscription
 
Hard Cover
336 pages
In Good Condition