Ebook {Epub PDF} The Great War: July 1 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme by Joe Sacco

 · A section from Joe Sacco’s foot-long wordless graphic illustration in book form, “The Great War,” imagining the first day of a World War I battle in Credit Leah Nash for The New Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.  · Launched on July 1, , the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20, British soldiers were killed and another 40, were wounded that first day, and there were more than one million casualties by the time the offensive halted/5().  · Joe Sacco’s The Great War: July 1, The First Day of the Battle of the Somme isn’t a comic per se - it’s a staggering 24 foot long wordless panorama depicting the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Folded numerous times to fit into book format, it can be “read” like a book and looks a bit like an accordion in profile/5().

The Duchess of Cambridge has spoken of the "very moving" and "emotional" experience as she and senior members of the royal family joined an audience of 10, to honour soldiers killed in the Battle of the Somme years after the bloodiest day in British military history. In the whole of history there has never been a war like it. In its scale of destruction, the war on the Eastern Front was unique; from Leningrad to the Crimea, from Kiev to Stalingrad, the Soviet Union was devastated - at least 25 million Soviet citizens died. Battles of the Somme , Allied Offensive, Western Front, First World War. This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or - from the available evidence - is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be.

July 1, In “The Great War,” a wordless, foot-long panorama, Joe Sacco illustrates the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Cartoonist Joe Sacco (Palestine, Safe Area Goražde, Footnotes in Gaza) has imagined the first day of the Battle of the Somme, launched July 1, , during World War I, “The Great War”. As Adam Hochschild writes in an accompanying historical note, “More than 19, were killed, most of them within the first disastrous hour.”. A section from Joe Sacco’s foot-long wordless graphic illustration in book form, “The Great War,” imagining the first day of a World War I battle in Credit Leah Nash for The New.