Philpott, Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century.
Philpott, Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century.
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Philpott, William. Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century. First U.S. edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. 16.5 x 24cm. 631 pages, with 24 pages of photgraphs and 9 maps. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Deckle edges. Excellent condition, like new. In Three Armies on the Somme, William Philpott makes a convincing argument 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. With his keen insight and vast knowledge of military strategy, Philpott shows that twentieth-century war as we know it simply didn’t exist before the Battle of the Somme: new technologies like the armored tank made their battlefield debut, while developments in communications lagged behind commanders’ needs.At the Somme, the allied armies acquired the necessary lessons of modern warfare, without which they could never have prevailed. An exciting, indispensable work of military history that challenges our received ideas about the Battle of the Somme, and about the very nature of war. [From dustjacket notes]
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