Giles, John, — THE SOMME THEN AND NOW.
Battle of Britain Prints International, London, 1986, 2nd imp., xiv, 154pp, half tone photo ills. and maps in text, half tone photo pictorial endpapers, oversize landscape format (8.5 x 10.5 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, first published in 1977 a revised account and enlarged of the battle of the Somme during the First World War, using contemporary photographs and maps together with recent photographs of the same area, and eye-witness accounts, to describe the stages of the battle along that whole section of the front, from the first day (1st July 1916) when British Army suffered its worst one-day combat loss in its history with nearly 60,000 casualties, to the end in November that year by which time british and French casualties had reached more than 500,000, fine in a fine dustwrapper,
