Excerpt from The Somme, Vol. 2: The Second Battle of the Somme (1918); Amiens Montdidier Compiegne At different periods during the War, important events took place in the Plains of Picardy, in the region which extends between Amiens and St. Quentin, Bapaume and Noyon, between the valleys of the rivers Ancre, Avre and Oise. The franco-british Offensive of july-september 1916, and the German Retreat of March 1917, are described in the Michelin Guide The First Battle of the Somme, 1916 - 1917 which includes carefully prepared itineraries, enabling the reader to cover the whole battle field of that period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."