{"product_id":"the-long-road-to-the-alan-macdonald-9780955811937","title":"The Long Road to the Somme: Episodes 1870 to 1915","description":"\u003cp\u003e7.29 a.m., 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e July 1916. North of the River Somme the young men of two armies wait to go 'over the top'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Britain it was the costliest day in its Army's history - 58,000 dead, wounded and missing. For France, it was a relative stroll as they took every objective within a few hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn two volumes, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Road to the Somme\u003c\/em\u003e seeks to explore, understand and, possibly, explain such dramatically different outcomes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt looks at previous wars - the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1, the Second Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War 1904-5, and the First Balkan War 1912-3 - to see what lessons were learnt and what was ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt looks at politics and society, at education and training, at strategies and tactics, at how the public were conditioned to accept war as inevitable - and at the prescient men who, unlike the military commanders, accurately forecast the way in which The Great War would be fought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolume I - Episodes\u003c\/em\u003e - covers the period from 1870 to December 1915.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolume II - Planning the Big Push\u003c\/em\u003e - explores the development of the Somme plan, the impact of Verdun, and the great differences in tactics employed by the two Armies on 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e July.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0955811937\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780955811937\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Iona Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 894\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.77d","brand":"Alan MacDonald","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46293176090879,"sku":"9780955811937","price":47.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_efc7f25a-8d6b-4562-b938-f3ca0069e1d3.jpg?v=1730212351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-long-road-to-the-alan-macdonald-9780955811937","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}