Stephen Bull: British Infantryman vs German Infantryman [2014] paperback ECONO Friends and neighbours here to

Friends and neighbours here to greet

delight - and terrify

but she's an outcast

from Nabokov's butterflies to Dante's cosmology

Stephen Bull: British Infantryman vs German Infantryman [2014] paperback ECONO Friends and neighbours here toThe mighty struggle for the Somme sector of the Western Front in the second half of 1916 has come to be remembered for the dreadful toll of casualties inflicted on Britain's 'New Armies' by the German defenders on the first day of the offensive, 1 July. The battle continued, however, throughout the autumn and only came to a close in the bitter cold of mid November. The British plan relied on the power of artillery to suppress and destroy the German