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Origins of the Campaign | p. 7 |
Opening moves | |
Options to end trench stalemate | |
The failed offensives of 1915 | |
Plans for 1916 - towards the Somme | |
The place of the Somme in Allied strategy | |
Chronology | p. 13 |
1914 | |
1915 | |
1916 | |
1917 | |
1918 | |
Opposing Commanders | p. 15 |
German commanders | |
British commanders | |
French commanders | |
Opposing Forces | p. 21 |
The German Army | |
The British Army | |
The French Army | |
Orders of battle | |
Opposing Plans | p. 31 |
German plans for defence on the Somme | |
The British Army's plan of attack | |
Preparing for Z Day - artillery, barbed wire and dugouts | |
French plans | |
1 July 1916 | p. 41 |
Third Army: Gommecourt | |
Serre and Beaumont Hamel | |
Thiepval | |
Ovillers and La Boisselle | |
Fricourt and Mametz | |
Montauban | |
The French sector | |
South of the Somme | |
The German experience | |
The situation at the end of the day | |
Aftermath | p. 78 |
A military disaster? | |
Lessons of the Somme | p. 78 |
The Battlefield Today | p. 88 |
Further Reading | p. 94 |
Index | p. 95 |
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