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BOOKS and AUDIOBOOKS available in Donovan Library

BOOKS

D25 .K43 1989 Keegan, John. The Illustrated Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the . New York: Viking, 1989.

D25.5 .H88 1999 Holmes, Richard (ed.) The Hutchinson Atlas of Battle Plans: Before and After. Chicago, IL: Fitroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.

D507 .V35 2008 Van der Kloot, William G. The Lessons of War: The Experiences of Seven Future Leaders in the First World War. Stroud, Gloucestershire: History Press, 2008.

D521 .E4 1992 Miles, Wilfrid (ed.). Military Operations, and Belgium, 1916. London: Imperial War Museum, Dept. of Printed Books, 1992. Donovan Archives.

D521 .G694 2014 Grant, R.G. (ed.) World War I: The Definitive Visual History, From Sarajevo to Versailles. New York: DK Publishing, 2014.

D545 .B39 H36 2001 Hancock, Edward. Ridge. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, 2001.

D545 .C69 R44 2002 Reed, Paul. . Barnsley, South Yorkshire: L. Cooper, 2002.

D545 .S7 B8 1916 Buchan, John. The : First Phase. New York: T Nelson & Sons, 1916. Archives.

D545 .S7 C372 1999 Cave, Nigel. Delville Wood. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, 1999.

D545 .S7 C42 1998 Cave, Nigel. Gommecourt. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Cooper, 1998.

D545 .S7 G3 1963 Gardner, Brian. The Big Push: A Portrait of the Battle of the Somme. New York: Morrow, 1963.

D545 .S7 G57 1990 Gliddon, Gerald. “When the Barrage Lifts”: A Topographical History and Commentary on the Battle of the Somme 1916. London: L. Cooper, 1990.

D545 .S7 .G627 2006 Gilbert, Martin. The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War. New York: H. Holt, 2006.

D545 .S75 G73 1991 Gray, Randal. Kaiserschlact 1918. London: Osprey, 1991.

D545 .S7 H348 2005 Hart, Peter. The Somme. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005.

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D545 .S7 H67 1996 Horsfall, Jack. Serre. London: Cooper, 1996.

D545 .S7 K44 1998 Keech, Graham. Pozieres. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Cooper, 1998.

D545 .S75 P43 2003 Pederson, Peter Andreas. Hamel. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: L. Cooper, 2003.

D545 .S7 P44 2005 Pegler, Martin. Attack on the Somme: Haig’s Offensive 1916. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, 2005.

D545 .S7 P495 2010 Philpott, William James. Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

D545 .S7 P53 2002 Pidgeon, Trevor. Flers and , 15-26 . Barnsley, South Yorkshire: L. Cooper, 2002.

D545 .S7 P75 2005 Prior, Robin. The Somme. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

D545 .S7 S74 1995 Stedman, Michael. Somme: . London: Cooper, 1995.

D545 .S7 S727 1997 Stedman, Michael. Fricout-Mametz. London: Cooper, 1997.

D545 .S7 S728 1998 Stedman, Michael. . London: Cooper, 1998.

D545 .S7 S74 1997 Stedman, Michael. La Boisselle, Ovillers/. London: Cooper, 1997.

D545 .S7 R44 1998 Reed, Paul. . Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Cooper, 1998.

D546 .L34 1992 Laffin, John. British Butchers and Bunglers of World War I. Gloucestershire, England: Sutton Pub., 1992 (1997 Printing).

D756 .G75 1996 Griffith, Paddy. Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The Britsih Army’s Art of Attack, 1916-18. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1996.

G1037 .P3 2005 Hughes, Matthew (ed.) The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

AUDIOBOOKS/E-BOOKS

D25 .K43 2001ab Keegan, John. The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. New York: Penguin Books, 2014. .

D521 .U6 1923 “Monograph of the World War” Available in Library Archives collection and for download at https://mcoepublic.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/library/DonovanPa pers/wwi/D521_U6_Monographs of the World War.pdf

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LIBRARY ARCHIVES

Finnessy, John. CPT, “The Second Phase of the Battle of the Somme, July 17 – Sept 14, 1916.” Published in Monographs, Class of 1923, pp. 264-267. Archives.

Hayne, Frank B. Jr., CPT “Third and Fourth Phases of the Battle of the Somme (1916).” Published in Monographs, Class of 1923, pp. 268-276. Archives.

Tuttle, Albert L. CPT, “The First Phase of the Battle of the Somme, to include July 16, 1916.” Published in Monographs, Class of 1923, pp. 257-263. Archives

E-BOOKS & E-AUDIO BOOKS Available to download (Will require a library account. Contact the reference desk for more information, [email protected])

Available from Overdrive

Hart, Peter. The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front. New York: Pegasus Books 2011. eBook https://mcoelibrary.overdrive.com/media/610600

Kendall, Paul. Somme 1916. Skyhorse Publishing 2019. eBook. https://mcoelibrary.overdrive.com/media/2795418

Liddle, Peter. The 1916 Battle of the Somme Reconsidered. Pen & Sword Books, 2020. eBook. https://mcoelibrary.overdrive.com/media/2894730

Macdonald, Andrew. First Day of the Somme. Harper Collins Publishing, 2016. eBook. https://mcoelibrary.overdrive.com/media/2468962

Philpott, William. Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century. New York: Vintage Books 2010. eBook. https://mcoelibrary.overdrive.com/media/467524

Available from EBSCOHost

John Keegan, and Narrator: Robert Whitfield. Face of Battle, The. Blackstone Audio, 2011. Downloadable audiobook, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlabk&AN=419885&site=ehost-live

DOCUMENTS (items from Rand, DTIC, etc) (May Require Library account and Log-in)

Cavaleri, David P. “Overcoming the Battlefield Stalemate.” Download from Defense Technical Information Center. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA264694.pdf

Bradbeer, Thomas G. “The Battle for Air Supremacy over the Somme 1 June 30 -30 November 1916.” Ft. Leavenworth, KS: US Army Command and General Staff College 1999. Download from Defense Technical Information Center at https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA428801.pdf

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Stanley, John W. “Personal Experience of a Battalion Commander and Brigade Signal Officer, 105th Field Signal Battalion, in the Somme Offensive, September 29–October 12, 1918.” 1930–1931. TS. MCoE Libraries. Download from https://mcoepublic.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/library/DonovanPapers/wwi/STUP1/S- Z/StanleyJohn%20W.pdf .

JOURNAL ARTICLES (from subscription databases) (Will require a library account. Contact the reference desk staff for more information at [email protected])

"Twentieth Century Statesman--1916: The Battle of the Somme." New Statesman, vol. 12, no. 583, Nov 29, 1999, pp. 42. (Proquest) https://search.proquest.com/magazines/twentieth-century-statesman-1916- battle-somme/docview/224347107/se-2?accountid=197336.

Ball, Tony. “The Northumberland Fusiliers and the Somme, 1916: a Case Study in Unit Deployment, Tactical Order, and Casualties.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, vol. 85, no. 344, 2007, pp. 310–345 (JSTOR) , www.jstor.org/stable/44232752.

Bradbeer, Thomas G. The British Air Campaign during the Battle of the Somme April-November, 1916: A Pyrrhic Victory, University of Kansas, Ann Arbor, 2011. (Proquest) https://search.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/british-air-campaign-during-battle-somme- april/docview/873786391/se-2?accountid=197336.

Deverell, ChristopherM. “X. Haig versus Rawlinson – Manoeuvre versus Attrition: The British Army on the Somme, 1916.” Defence Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 124–137. (EBSCOhost) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tsh&AN=18333512&site=ehost-live

Durey, Michael. “Lessons on the Somme: the Tactical use of the 2nd.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, vol. 94, no. 378, 2016, pp. 129–144. (JSTOR) www.jstor.org/stable/44233117.

Furtado, Peter. "The Somme Battlefield." History Today, vol. 56, no. 7, 07, 2006, pp. 10-11(Proquest) https://search.proquest.com/magazines/somme-battlefield/docview/202819217/se-2?accountid=197336.

Gompertz, A. V. “The Battle of the Somme.” Professional Memoirs, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, and Engineer Department at Large, vol. 10, no. 50, 1918, pp. 229–252. (JSTOR) www.jstor.org/stable/44547073.

Greenhalgh, Elizabeth. ""Parade Ground Soldiers": French Army Assessments of the British on the Somme in 1916." The Journal of Military History, vol. 63, no. 2, 1999, pp. 283-312. (Proquest) https://search.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/parade-ground-soldiers-french-army- assessments/docview/195627779/se-2?accountid=197336.

Greenhalgh, Elizabeth. “The Experience of Fighting with Allies: The Case of the Capture of Falfemont Farm during the Battle of the Somme, 1916.” War in History, vol. 10, no. 2, 2003, pp. 157–183. (JSTOR) www.jstor.org/stable/26061640.

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Greenhalgh, E. “Why the British Were on the Somme in 1916.” War in History, vol. 6, no. 2, Apr. 1999, pp. 147–173. (EBSCOhost) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tsh&AN=1754472&site=ehost-live

James, Trevor. "The Battle of the Somme." Historian, no. 130, 2016, pp. 4. (Proquest) https://search.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/battle-somme/docview/1892966352/se- 2?accountid=197336.

Prete, Roy A. "Joffre and the Origins of the Somme: A Study in Allied Military Planning." The Journal of Military History, vol. 73, no. 2, 2009, pp. 417-448. (Proquest) https://search.proquest.com/scholarly- journals/joffre-origins-somme-study-allied-military/docview/195637160/se-2?accountid=197336.

Roberts, Andrew. “Battle Scars.” Smithsonian, vol. 47, no. 4, July 2016, pp. 56–65. (EBSCOhost) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&AN=116664330&site=ehost-live.

Sheffield, Gary. “An Exercise in Futility?” History Today, vol. 66, no. 7, July 2016, pp. 10–18. (EBSCOhost) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&AN=116837177&site=ehost-live.

Stewart, William. “‘Byng Boys’: A Profile of Senior Commanders of Canadian Combat Units on the Somme, 1916.” War in History, vol. 23, no. 1, Jan. 2016, pp. 55–78. (EBSCOhost) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tsh&AN=112526590&site=ehost-live

MAPS

Campaign Atlases to the Great War. <,http://www.westpoint.edu/history/SitePages/WWI.aspx>

Western Front, 1915–1916: Battle of the Somme. Map. First World War: A Multimedia History of World War One. Michael Duffy, n.d. Web. http://firstworldwar.com/maps/graphics/maps_34_wfront_somme_(1600).jpg

VERTICAL FILE For additional printed sources, check the vertical file at the MCoE HQ Donovan Research Library. Ask circulation and/or reference desk staff for assistance.

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