Martin Middlebrook

Praise for The First Day on the Somme

The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words

Guardian

A particularly vivid and personal narrative

Times Literary Supplement

Pioneering and hauntingly eloquent

Peter Parker, Spectator

The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words

Guardian

A particularly vivid and personal narrative

Times Literary Supplement

Pioneering and hauntingly eloquent

Peter Parker, Spectator

The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words

Guardian

A particularly vivid and personal narrative

Times Literary Supplement

Pioneering and hauntingly eloquent

Peter Parker, Spectator