Battle of the Somme 1916 Reading list to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak. A) The Somme battle and campaign Barton, Peter, The Somme (Constable, 2011) ISBN:1849017190 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Cave, Nigel, Somme: Beaumont Hamel (Pen & Sword Books, 1994) ISBN: 0850523982 Shelfmark: 940.427 Cave, Nigel, Somme: Gommecourt (Leo Cooper, 1998) ISBN: 0850525616 Shelfmark: 940.427 Cave, Nigel, Somme: Delville Wood (Leo Cooper, 1999) ISBN: 0850525845 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Farrar-Hockley, A, Somme (Cerberus, 2004) ISBN: 9781841450438 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Gilbert, Martin, The Somme (John Murray, 2006) ISBN: 0719568633 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Gliddon, Gerald, Somme 1916, a battlefield companion (The History Press, 2009) ISBN: 0752453351 Shelfmark: 940.4272 © West Sussex County Council Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk Hart, Peter, The Somme (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005) ISBN: 9780297847052 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Kendall, Paul, Somme 1916, (Frontline Books , 2015) ISBN: 9781848329058 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Langford, William, Great push: Battle of the Somme 1916, Rare photographs from wartime archives (Pen & Sword Military, 2012) ISBN: 9781781590416 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Macdonald, L, Somme (Viking, 2013) ISBN: 9780241952382 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Marix-Evans, Martin, Battles of the Somme (The History Press, 2010) ISBN: 9780752455259 Shelfmark: 940.427 Masefield, John, Battle of the Somme (Bath, Chivers, 1968) ISBN: X000277126 Shelfmark: 940.427 Middlebrook, Martin, The First Day of the Somme (Penguin Books, 2016) ISBN: 9780141981604 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Philpott, William, Bloody victory, the sacrifice on the Somme (Abacus, 2010) ISBN: 9780349120041 Shelfmark: 940.4272 © West Sussex County Council Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk Pidgeon, Trevor, Flers and Gueudecourt, 15-26 September 1916 (Leo Cooper, 2002) ISBN: 0580527783 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Pidgeon, Trevor, Boom Ravine, Somme (Leo Cooper, 1998) ISBN: 0850526124 Shelfmark: 940.427 Prior, P, Somme (Yale University Press, 2016) ISBN: 9780300220285 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Rawson, Andrew, Somme campaign (Pen & Sword Military, 2014) ISBN: 9781783030514 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Reed, Paul, Courcelette (Leo Cooper, 1998) ISBN: 0850525926 Shelfmark: 940.427 Renshaw, Michael, Somme: Mametz Wood (Leo Cooper, 1999) ISBN: 0850526647 Shelfmark: 940.427 Renshaw, Michael, Redan Ridge (Pen & Sword, 2004) ISBN:1844150550 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Roberts, Andrew, Elegy, the first day on the Somme (Head of Zeus, 2015) ISBN: 9781784080013 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Robertshaw, A, Somme (Spellmount, 2014) ISBN: 9780750955652 Shelfmark: 940.4272, 23 © West Sussex County Council Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk Stedman, Michael, Somme Fricourt-Mametz (Leo Cooper, 1997) ISBN: 0850525748 Strohn, Matthias, The battle of the Somme (Osprey Publishing, 2016) ISBN: 9781472815569 Shelfmark: 940.4272 B) The British Army and the battle of the Somme Farrar-Hockley, Anthony, Goughie: The Life of General Sir Hubert Gough (Hart-Davis, Macgibbon, 1975) ISBN: 0246640596 Shelfmark: B GOUGH, HUBERT Griffith, Paddy, Battle Tactics of the Western Front, the British Army's Art of Attack, 1916-18 (Yale University Press, 1994) ISBN: 0300059108 Shelfmark: 940.4144 Holmes, Richard, Tommy, The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914- 1918 (HarperCollins, 2004) ISBN: 0007137516 Shelfmark: 940.48341 Langford, William, Somme intelligence: fourth army HQ 1916, prisoner interrogations and captured documents (Pen & Sword Military, 2013) ISBN: 9781781590829 Shelfmark: 940.485 Prior, R. & Wilson, T., Command on the Western Front, the Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson 1914-1918 (Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2004) ISBN: 1844151034 Shelfmark: 940.4012 © West Sussex County Council Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk Simkins, Peter, From the Somme to victory, the British Army's experience on the Western Front 1916-1918 (Pen & Sword, 2014) ISBN: 9781781593127 Shelfmark: 940.4144 Travers, Tim, The Killing Ground. The British Army, the Western Front and the Emergence of Modern Warfare 1900-1918 (Pen & Sword, 2009) ISBN: 1844158896 Shelfmark: 355.00941 C) The German Army and the battle of the Somme Bilton, David, The Germans on the Somme (Pen & Sword, 2009) ISBN: 9781844158652 Shelfmark: 940.41343 Duffy, Christopher, Through German Eyes, the British & the Somme 1916 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006) ISBN: 0297846892 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Hirschfeld, Gerhard; Renz, Irina; Krumeich, Gerd, Scorched earth, the Germans on the Somme, 1914-18 (Pen & Sword, 2009) ISBN: 9781844159734 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Liveing, E. & Gibbs, P., Walking into hell, the Somme through British and German eyes (Pen & Sword Military, 2014) ISBN: 9781783463145 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Sheldon, Jack, The German Army on the Somme, 1914-1916 (Pen & Sword Military, 2005) ISBN: 1844152693 Shelfmark: 940.4272 © West Sussex County Council Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk D) Diaries and recollections of those involved in the battle of the Somme Drinkwater, Harry & Cooksey, Jon-Griffiths, David, Harry's war, the Great War diary of Harry Drinkwater (Ebury Press , 2013) ISBN: 9780091957216 Shelfmark: 940.48141 Graves, Robert, Goodbye to All That (Penguin, 2000) ISBN: 0141184590 Shelfmark: B GRAVES,ROBERT Levine, Joshua , Forgotten voices of the Somme, the most devastating battle of the Great War in the words of those who survived (Ebury, 2008) ISBN: 9780091926274 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Lynch, E. P. F. & Davies, Will, Somme Mud (Bantam, 2008) ISBN: 9780553819137 Shelfmark: 940.4144 Mace, M. & Grehan, J., Slaughter on the Somme. 1 July 1916, the complete war diaries of the British Army's worst day (Pen & Sword Military, 2013) ISBN: 9781848847705 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Rogerson, Sidney, Twelve days on the Somme, a memoir of the trenches, 1916. New ed. (Frontline, 2009) ISBN: 9781848325340 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Van Emden, Richard, The Somme, Epic battle in the Soldiers' own words and photographs (Pen & Sword Military, 2016) ISBN: 9781473855212 Shelfmark: 940.4272 © West Sussex County Council Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk E) Finding out about people and places linked to the battle of the Somme Fowler, Simon, Tracing your Great War ancestors: The Somme, a guide for family historians (Pen & Sword, 2015) ISBN: 9781473823693 Shelfmark: 929.1072 Giles, John, Somme then and now. Revised Ed (Plaistow Press, 1986) ISBN: 9780900913419 Shelfmark: 940.427 Gliddon, Gerald, Legacy of the Somme 1916, The Battle in Fact, Film and Fiction (Alan Sutton, 1996) ISBN: 9780750911603 Shelfmark: 940.427 Holt, T. & Holt, V., Major and Mrs Holt's pocket battlefield guide to the Somme 1916/1918 (Pen & Sword Military, 2006) ISBN: 9781844153954 Shelfmark: 940.4144 Reed, Paul, Walking the Somme. 2nd ed, a walker's guide to the 1916 Somme Battlefields (Pen & Sword Military, 2011) ISBN: 9781848844735 Shelfmark: 940.427 Scotland, Thomas & Heys, Steven, Understanding the Somme 1916, an illuminating battlefield guide (Helion, 2014) ISBN: 9781909384422 Shelfmark: 940.4272 © West Sussex County Council Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk F) The role of aircraft, medicine, tanks and weapons at the battle of the Somme Cooper, Bryan, Tank battles of World War I (Pen & Sword Military, 2014) ISBN: 9781473825628 Shelfmark: 940.43 Campbell, Christopher, Band of Brigands, the first men in tanks (Harper Press, 2007) ISBN: 9780007214594 Shelfmark: 940.41241 Cornish, Paul, Machine guns and the Great War (Pen & Sword, 2009) ISBN: 9781848840478 Shelfmark: 940.4 Downing, Taylor, Breakdown, the crisis of shell shock on the Somme, 1916 (Little Brown, 2016) ISBN: 9781408706619 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Fraser, A, Robertshaw, A & Roberts, S., Ghosts on the Somme, filming the Battle, June-July 1916 (Pen & Sword Military, 2016) ISBN: 9781473878211 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Hart, Peter, Somme Success – The Royal Flying Corps and the battle of the Somme (Leo Cooper, 2001) ISBN: 0850527414 Shelfmark: 940.446 Kenyon, David, Horsemen in No Man's Land, British Cavalry and Trench Warfare, 1914-1918 (Pen & Sword Military, 2011) ISBN: 9781848843646 Shelfmark: 940.4 © West Sussex County Council Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk O'Connor, Mike, Airfields and Airmen of the Somme (Leo Cooper, 2002) ISBN: 085052864X Shelfmark: 940.4494 Pidgeon, Trevor, Tanks on the Somme, from Morval to Beaumont Hamel (Pen & Sword, 2010) ISBN: 9781848842533 Shelfmark: 940.4272 Strong, Paul, Artillery in the Great War (Pen & Sword Military, 2011) ISBN: 1844159493 Shelfmark: 940.41 G) Fiction and drama linked to the battle of the Somme Forester, C. S, The General (William Collins, 2015) ISBN: 9780007580071 Shelfmark: Fiction Keegan, John, The Face of Battle, a study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme (Pimlico, 2004) ISBN: 1844137481 Shelfmark: 355.4 Manning, Frederic, Middle parts of fortune, Somme and Ancre, 1916 (Penguin Classics, 2014) ISBN: 9780141393414 Shelfmark: Fiction Tim Stanton, Information Librarian June 2016 © West Sussex County Council Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk .