President's Address: Plans for after the Somme?
Published on 24 April 2010
Submitted by Correlli Barnett
The President of the WFA, Correlli Barnett, discusses the apparent lack of logistic or contingency plans by the BEF to make the hoped for breakout following The Battle of the Somme in 1916.
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