The Somme, 1870-1: the Winter Campaign in Picardy

The Winter Campaign in Picardy. A copiously illustrated book using a range of contemporary sources to describe the course of the Winter Campaign in Picardy.

The Author draws on a wide range of rare contemporary sources to describe the Campaign, which was fought in appalling weather conditions.

The book is copiously illustrated, with specially drawn colour battle maps to demonstrate the course of the Campaign, and also includes extensive orders of battle.

The Campaign was fought to a large extent over the area of the Somme battlefields of the First World War, and the names of the towns and villages are grimly