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Boom Ravine was one of the most spectacular features on the Somme battlefield. The Germans took full advantage of the ravine's defensive possibilities, and inflicted heavy casualties on successive waves of British attackers.There has been a lack of coverage of the Somme front for the period between the British offensive of 1916 and the German attacks of 1918. Boom Ravine fills this gap, with particular emphasis on British actions in February, ...

In this, his last work which was completed shortly before he died, Trevor Pidgeon reconstructs the tank actions that took place between late September and November on the Somme. His account gives insight into the experiences of the tank crews, as they maneuvered their crude, vulnerable and unreliable machines towards the enemy.