{"product_id":"first-day-on-the-somme","title":"First Day On The Somme","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways'' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 1 July 1916, a continous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man''s Land and began to walk towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns. By the end of the day there were more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartin Middlebrook''s now-classic account of the blackest day in the history of the British army draws on official sources from the time, and on the words of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319605338494,"sku":"NW9780141981604","price":12.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141981604.jpg?v=1778696231","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/first-day-on-the-somme","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}