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Scorched Earth: the Germans on the Somme 1914-18

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
Published: 20th Aug 2009
Dimensions: w 161mm h 242mm d 27mm
Weight: 550g
ISBN-10: 1844159736
ISBN-13: 9781844159734
Barcode No: 9781844159734
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This book discusses in detail the experience of German warfare in the first World War, focusing specifically on the battle of the Somme. The Somme, together with other regions of northern France, had also lain under German domination. Its inhabitants had been rigorously suppressed and their possessions carted off as booty. Finally, during their 1917 withdrawal, the Germans had subjected the whole region to Operation Alberich, a retreat involving unparalleled brutality which left the population in occupation of a wilderness wrought by war (the scorched earth policy"). A well-known

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