books.google.co.nz - From one of our most distinguished historians, an authoritative and vivid account of the devastating World War I battle that claimed more than 300,000 livesAt 7:30 am on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged out into no-man's-land...http://books.google.co.nz/books/about/The_Somme.html?id=13_NgEr8lxkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Somme
