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BOOK AND DVD PACKAGE
"I write to congratulate you on an outstanding book. Beautifully designed and written, with superb photographs – a really sensitive tribute. I have quite a number of books on the 1914/18 War but none has moved me as much as yours..."
Mr B Marchant, East Grinstead
Client Dorling Kindersley
Published in the USA, Canada & Australia as The Somme Then and Now
Authors Duncan Youel and David Edgell
Editor Andrew Heritage
Historical Consultant Michael Stedman
Genealogy Advisors Ken and Pam Linge
Art Direction Duncan Youel
Design Philippa Baile, Kate Stretton, Lynette Eve and Gill Patchett
Photography Keith Lillis, Michael Stedman and the M2 Archive
Interviews David Edgell
Forewords generously given by
HRH The Prince of Wales
Brigadier Tim Gregson MBE
General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter OBE
Piers Storie-Pugh MBE DL
A complete book and DVD package commissioned by Dorling Kindersley on the 90th Anniversary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme. Written by Duncan Youel and David Edgell, the book examines the fascination that the Somme still exerts upon the British. It breaks down into two parts—Then and Now. As well as a complete, in-depth account of the four and a half month-long campaign, the book visits the battlefields of the Somme today, taking in Lutyens’ enormous Memorial to the Missing, its recent Visitor Centre and seminal Sites of Memory along the Old Frontline. The accompanying DVD follows the 1st of July 7:30am service at Lochnagar Crater and interviews the people who make their living on the Somme today—from battlefield guides, B&B owners and barkeepers, to curators and historians. The book also contains a section on genealogy, the construction of the hundreds of battlefield cemeteries and the building of the memorials at home, back in Blighty.
Somme90, a special boxed Collector’s Edition was also published alongside the Dorling Kindersley title. Go to
Top left Box case of the Somme90 Collector’s Edition
Top Cover of the Somme Ninety Years On, DK edition;
Above Three spreads from the book—Geoffrey Malins and stills from his capture on film of the eruption of the giant Hawthorn mine, inexplicably blown ten minutes before Zero on the 1st of July. Malins and John McDowell’s film the Battle of the Somme was screened back in Britain in August 1916 to enormous public response—it’s estimated that at least half the adult population of the country went to see it. It is the world’s first war documentary and captures history in the making. Today it is part of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register; Teddy Colligan interviewed in the Ulster Tower caff and shop discusses how the Remembering of the events on the Somme is now making its own contribution to the Peace Process in Ireland; Views of the 29th Division Memorial and the Newfoundland Caribou Memorial, both set within original British Frontline trench remains in the grounds of Newfoundland Memorial park
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