Isbn: 9798193706779 - another day on the somme: the wounding of gilbert prescott, 1916 (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In July 1916, the Battle of the Somme began not as a single moment of catastrophe, but as a process.Another Day on the Somme follows Private Gilbert Prescott of the Dorset Regiment through the opening phase of the campaign, tracing his movement across chalk ground and shattered trenches, through repetition, exhaustion, and administrative momentum, until injury removes him from the line.This is not a story of heroism or decisive action. It is a reconstruction of ordinary infantry experience: waiting, advancing, withdrawing, and enduring. Orders are given without certainty. Ground is taken and lost. Survival is arbitrary.Written with deliberate restraint and grounded in the known historical record, this book refuses spectacle in favour of accuracy. It follows one man only as far as the war followed him, and no further.What remains is not a victory or a lesson, but the quiet fact of what was lived, and what came after.…