Fighting the Somme

A fresh look at the German defense in the WW1 battle, “jam packed with history [and] tons of firsthand accounts . . . superb” ( A Wargamers Needful Things ). Rather than a rehashed narrative history of the Battle of the Somme, this book draws heavily on examples that can be illustrated through exploitation of the primary sources still available in abundance in the archives at Stuttgart and Munich, as well as anecdotal accounts, to explain how and why the German defense was designed and conducted