The First Day on the Somme (Revised Edition), Martin Middlebrook.

The First Day on the Somme (Revised Edition), Martin Middlebrook. 
A classic work that help found an entire genre of military history, combining a detailed history of the first day of the battle of the Somme with extensive extracts from eyewitness accounts of the fighting. The result is a truly excellent and moving account of the costly disaster of the First Day of the Somme, with a deserved reputation as a classic, and that hasn’t been out of print since 1971.
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USS Aylwin (DD-47)

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USS Duncan (DD-46)

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