The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War Diary he served at Le Havre

he served at Le Havre

and the great battles that followed over the course of the next four years

We learn firsthand—from memoirs and diaries

of World War I

The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War Diary he served at Le HavreDescription by Martin Gilbert Paperback At 7: 30 a. m. on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged into no man's land, toward the barbed wire and machine guns at the German front lines. In the months that followed, the fifteen mile long territory erupted into the epicenter of the Great War, marking a pivotal moment in both the war and military history as tanks first appeared on