{"product_id":"9781473866744","title":"Somme 100th Anniversary","description":"The 100th Anniversary of the most publically aware battle of WW1 - the \u003cbr\u003ebattle of the Somme, will be on 1 July 2016 and every media form will be \u003cbr\u003ecovering it from January onwards. The book has taken 20 years to mature from its first edition to this new 'Definitive' edition, the Seventh, each time being updated and expanded. It is a legacy that should be on every  bookshelf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is based upon over 30 years of traveling and writing about \u003cbr\u003ebattlefields by two people - Major and Mrs  Holt - who are credited with \u003cbr\u003ehaving started the modern era of battlefield tours - and were awarded the \u003cbr\u003eSomme Centenary Medal for their work in 'opening the doors to the \u003cbr\u003ebattlefields' with their books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Guide Book is MORE than a guide book - Sir Martin Gilbert said, ' the \u003cbr\u003eHolts have raised the Guide Book to a new high level,' and ' the golden \u003cbr\u003ethread that runs through it (the previous Somme Guide) - is the focus that \u003cbr\u003ethe Holts give to the stories of individuals'. It will therefore appeal both \u003cbr\u003eto General and to Specialist readers whether they travel to the battlefields \u003cbr\u003eor not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not merely a guide book, nor a history book, but it is brimming \u003cbr\u003ewith human interest stories of veterans' experiences, tales of bravery, \u003cbr\u003ecomradeship, natural terror, literary illusions to poets who experienced the \u003cbr\u003ebattles (such a Owen \u0026amp; Sassoon, Seeger and Sorley) ...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you buy just one book about the Battle of the Somme, this is the one \u003cbr\u003ethat you should have, written by those who know the area and the battlefield \u003cbr\u003ebetter even than the French themselves, and who tell its story from both \u003cbr\u003ehumanistic and military standpoints\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pen \u0026 Sword Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178130260208,"sku":"9781473866744","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781473866744_p0.jpg?v=1769893274","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781473866744","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}