Credits

This history was produced in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, London.  All images are from the IWM collection and must not be reproduced without the appropriate permissions.  For more information see http://www.iwm.org.uk/

Bibliography

The Old Front Line / by John Masefield, Bourne End, Bucks: 1972 (originally published by William Heinemann in 1917)

Undertones of War / by Edmund Blunden, London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1928 (1929
printing).

Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1916 [Volume I] / compiled by Brigadier-General Sir James E Edmonds (by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence), London, Macmillan, 1932

Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1916 [Volume II] / compiled by Captain Wilfrid Miles (by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence), London, Macmillan, 1938

A History of the Great War / by C R M F Cruttwell, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936 (Second Edition).

History of the First World War / B H Liddell Hart, London: Cassell and Co, 1971 (Second Impression)

The First Day on the Somme/ by Martin Middlebrook, Allen Lane, 1971

The Somme. The Day-by-Day Account / by Chris McCarthy, London: Arms and Armour Press, 1993.

The Somme / by Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson, London: Yale University Press, 2005