Operation Corporate by Martin Middlebrook

Then I started picking out the cemeteries where everybody had been killed on the same day, the first of July, and that really started the whole thing off. I remember standing and seeing four cemeteries without having to move. What happened to you there?Ī: I was just completely overwhelmed by the sheer density of it all. Q: Your first visit to the military cemeteries along the Western Front was a turning point in your life. He spoke with Ian MacLeod from his home in Twynning, Gloucestershire. Middlebrook’s first book, The First Day on the Somme, published in 1971, is based on the recollections of hundreds of British, Commonwealth and German veterans about that barbaric July day. The countryside is carpeted in many of their graves. In all, about 1.2 million men were killed, wounded or missing during the five months of carnage. (Newfoundland and Labrador didn’t enter Confederation until 1949.) The Somme cost Canada 24,029 casualties. Article contentĬanadian troops joined the front line fighting that August. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.National Capital Region's Top Employers.O元666074W Page_number_confidence 95.92 Pages 458 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220926185147 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 237 Scandate 20220907143544 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 3-9 Tts_version 5. Urn:oclc:record:1349251900 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier operationcorpora0000midd Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2w1x5p6zfb Invoice 1652 Isbn 0670802239 Lccn 85052053 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9949 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA403257 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:12:50 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40688610 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Operation Corporate by Martin Middlebrook