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Across from the Parade Ground Soldiers: assessing the French performance at the Somme

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The bulk of this article is a long explanation as to the finding of a brief answer: despite suffering slightly under one-third of the Entente’s casualties at the Battle of the Somme, the French inflicted 48% of Germany’s losses. In Parade Ground Soldiers, the late Dr. Elizabeth Greenhalgh presented a French impression of British efforts of the Som…