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'From this point, the tourist should go on foot: the Somme 1919-1939' by Prof Mark Connelly

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Caption: Tourists on the Western Front c. 1920 About this talk: Unlike Ypres, which although devastated was close to the channel ports and had its transport links rapidly re-established, visiting the Somme was a far more challenging prospect in the years immediately following the war. Nearly fifty miles across from Amiens to St Quentin and close...