Monday, June 20, 2016

Somme Intelligence: Fourth Army HQ 1916





Somme Intelligence: Fourth Army HQ 1916

Pen & Sword | 2013 | 160 pages | ISBN: 1781590826 | ePub (e-book) | 30 MB



For the Somme offensive British Fourth Army headquarters was situated in a chateau at Querrieu on the Albert-Amiens road. In the build up months to Haig’s Great Push a steady flow of intelligence was being compiled; captured German documents, intercepted messages, prisoners’ letters, diaries and information gleaned from prisoner interviews were entered into foolscap-size ledgers where they could be perused by the planners.