Books & Battlefields: The Somme
- Author
- Paul Reed
- Published
- Sat 08 May 2021
- Episode Link
- https://oldfrontline.co.uk/2021/05/08/books-battlefields-somme/
Something slightly different this week: we look at the village of Bazentin-le-Petit on the Somme battlefields through the lens of three classic memoirs of the Great War. These include Robert Graves Goodbye To All That and Frank Richards Old Soldiers Never Die. How important are these WW1 memoirs and what do they tell us?
