The Somme
Tim Pigott-Smith(Speaker)
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published on 2. June 2005
Audio
Audio cassette
978-0-7528-7239-1 (ISBN)
Description
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, 19,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers were killed - 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 four months, leaving the battlefield strewn with the bodies of over a million men - and all for the sake of just a few miles of land. The Somme has remained a byword for the futility of war ever since. In this major new history of the war, Peter Hart describes how the battle looked from the point of view of those who fought it. Using never-heard-before interviews taken from the Imperial War Museum oral archives and made them part of the abridged text from the book this will be a unique audio full of passion, joy and heart rending stories.
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Edition
Abridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
Abridged edition
Dimensions
Height: 138 mm
Width: 106 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Duration
Dauer: 390 min
Weight
231 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7528-7239-1 (9780752872391)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Peter Hart was born in 1955. He went to Liverpool University before joining the Sound Archive at the Imperial War Museum in 1981. He is now Oral Historian at the Archive. Tim Pigott-Smith is perhaps best known for his role in The Jewel in the Crown, but he is an actor of wide range and experience on film, television and the stage. TV work includes North and South and Innocents. Films include The Remains of the Day, Bloody Sunday and Gangs of New York.