Walking the Somme (Battleground Europe) [Paperback]

Paul Reed (Author)

Book Description

Series: Battleground Europe | Publication Date: August 1997

This new edition of Paul Reed's classic book Walking the Somme is an essential traveling companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916. His book, first published over ten years ago, is the result of a lifetime's research into the battle and the landscape over which it was fought.

From Gommecourt, Serre, Beaumont-Hamel and Thiepval to Montauban, High Wood, Delville Wood and Flers, he guides the walker across the major sites associated with the fighting. These are now features of the peaceful Somme countryside. In total there are 16 walks, including a new one tracing the operations around Mametz Wood, and all the original walks have been fully revised and brought up to date.

Walking the Somme brings the visitor not only to the places where the armies clashed but to the landscape of monuments, cemeteries and villages that make the Somme battlefield so moving to explore.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Books (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0850525675
• ISBN-13: 978-0850525670
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,866,510 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, Informative, Could Have a Better Map, September 10, 1999

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This review is from: Walking the Somme (Battleground Europe) (Paperback)

Recently a British friend and I (Yank) followed one of the book's walks on the Somme. The details in the book helped greatly. Beyond the basic description, all the snippets of poetry, diary entries, official history, and photos of soliders and then-and-now battle sites added greatly to the walk. The only thing we felt missing is that the many walks so well described in the book and well-mapped individually are not shown together in one area-wide map, which would help orient the first-time visitor.