The Somme Quotes

“This is what is called dying for your country, but it is actually selling your soul to a few profiteers for a shilling, and being massacred to satisfy their selfish purposes. And they call it WAR--and a legitimate thing at that.

-Private Arthur Wrench, Headquarters, 154th Brigade, 51st Division”
― Peter Hart, The Somme

“I watched as one captain sat near the Gerry dug out, eating his lunch with one hand and shooting them as they came out with the other. I thought that rather rude, as some had their hands up, but the captain said he'd had several of his men shot while on stretchers and didn't give a damn”
― Peter Hart, The Somme

“The casualties were beyond comprehension with 57,470 British casualties on the first day alone. Of these a staggering 19,240 were killed.”
― Peter Hart, The Somme

“THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME will always be controversial.”
― Peter Hart, The Somme

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― Peter Hart, The Somme