对索姆河的攻击：黑格1916年的进攻（竞选编年史）

索姆河战役在这个国家的集体记忆中被视为一场灾难——这可能是英国在西线发动的徒劳进攻中最血腥的一幕。1916年，经过五个多月的孤注一掷的战斗，英国人与德国人争夺对法国一片狭长无伤大雅的乡村的控制权。战斗结束时，英国人几乎没有把德国人从原来的阵地上推开，总共伤亡人数超过100万人。但80年后，这一西方军事史上臭名昭著的事件值得重新评估。
之前未公开的目击者描述被用来对战斗的直接经历给出一个迷人的第一手看法。正如马丁·佩格勒（Martin Pegler）所表明的那样，我们对Somme的评估，尤其是对战斗人员使用的战术和武器的评估，早就应该进行修订了，他挑战了关于战斗过程及其对未来战争发展影响的传统假设。
Attack on the Somme: Haig’s Offensive 1916 (Campaign Chronicles)
The Battle of the Somme is fixed in the country’s collective memory as a disaster – probably the bloodiest episode in the catalogue of futile offensives launched by the British on the Western Front. Over five months of desperate fighting in 1916 the British wrestled with the Germans for control of a narrow strip of innocuous French countryside. When the fighting petered out the British had barely pushed back the Germans from their original positions for a combined casualty figure of over a million men. But after 80 years this notorious episode in western military history deserves to be reassessed.
Previously unpublished eyewitness accounts are used to give a fascinating first-hand view of the immediate experience of the fighting. As Martin Pegler shows, a revision in our assessment of the Somme, in particular of the tactics and the weaponry employed by the combatants, is overdue, and he challenges the traditional assumptions about the course of the battle and its future impact on the development of warfare.

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