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Walking the Somme: A Walker's Guide to the 1916 Somme Battlefields
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.
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.
- GenresHistory
218 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1997
About the author
Paul Reed
10 booksBorn in the 1960s, Paul Reed is a leading military historian specialising in the First and Second World Wars. He is the author of seven books, including the best-selling Walking The Somme (Pen & Sword 1997), Great War Lives (Pen & Sword 2010) and Walking D-Day (Pen & Sword 2012).
Paul also works as an Historical Consultant and Contributor for Television; most recently he was consultant on Michael Palin’s Last Day of WW1, series consultant for BBC1’s My Family At War and historical consultant for BBC2’s Dan Snow’s Little Ships and BBC1’s Dig1940.
In 2011 he worked on Dig WW2 with Dan Snow and in 2012 was consultant for War Hero In My Family and is currently work on a new Channel 5 series about WW1 battlefield archaeology in Flanders.
Paul Reed can be contacted on: ww1research@hotmail.com
Principal websites are:
Battlefields of WW2: www.ww2battlefields.com
Old Front Line – Battlefields of WW1: www.battlefields1418.com
Ypres Battlefields: www.ypres-1917.com
Somme Battlefields: www.somme1916.com
Napoleonic Battles: www.napoleonic-battles.co.uk
Paul also works as an Historical Consultant and Contributor for Television; most recently he was consultant on Michael Palin’s Last Day of WW1, series consultant for BBC1’s My Family At War and historical consultant for BBC2’s Dan Snow’s Little Ships and BBC1’s Dig1940.
In 2011 he worked on Dig WW2 with Dan Snow and in 2012 was consultant for War Hero In My Family and is currently work on a new Channel 5 series about WW1 battlefield archaeology in Flanders.
Paul Reed can be contacted on: ww1research@hotmail.com
Principal websites are:
Battlefields of WW2: www.ww2battlefields.com
Old Front Line – Battlefields of WW1: www.battlefields1418.com
Ypres Battlefields: www.ypres-1917.com
Somme Battlefields: www.somme1916.com
Napoleonic Battles: www.napoleonic-battles.co.uk
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December 26, 2015
This book is a vital companion if you are ever visiting the Somme battlefields. Brilliantly researched and nicely put together so it is very easy to follow when you are in the middle of a field...
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