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With so many royals being forced to quarantine at home due to COVID-19, we’ve been treated to unprecedented glimpses into their homes. Spotted in Camilla’s Birkhall home office was this copy of Andrew Roberts’s ‘Elegy: The First Day on the Somme’.
On July 1, 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and five French divisions launched their long-awaited “Big Push” on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible cost. German machine-guns—manned by troops who had sat out the storm of shellfire in deep dugouts—inflicted terrible losses on the British infantry. The British Fourth Army lost 57,470 casualties, the French Sixth Army suffered 1,590 casualties, and the German 2nd Army 10,000. And this was but the prelude to 141 days of slaughter that would witness the deaths of between 750,000 and 1 million troops. Andrew Roberts evokes the pity and the horror of the blackest day in the history of the British army—a summer’s day turned hell on earth by modern military technology—in the words of casualties, survivors, and the bereaved.
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Tom Parker Bowles ‘The Year of Eating Dangerously’ Book
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Tom Parker Bowles ‘Let’s Eat’ Book
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Tom McCarthy ‘Satin Island’ Book
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Susan Hill ‘The Shadows in the Street’ Book
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Susan Hill ‘The Risk of Darkness’ Book
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Simon Montefiore ‘Sashenka’ Book
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Simon Montefiore ‘Jerusalem’ Book
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Sean Aherne ‘Welcome to the Nuthouse’ Sign
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Sarah Hawkswood ‘Marked to Die’ Book
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Robert Hardman ‘Our Queen’ Book
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Rachel Kushner ‘The Mars Room’ Book
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Philippa Gregory ‘Tidelands’ Book
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Yves Bonnefoy ‘Giacometti’ Book
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Women’s Institute ‘Within Living Memory’ Book
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Wayne Hammond ‘Art of the Lord of the Rings’ Book
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Wayne Hammond ‘Art of the Hobbit’ Book
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Vanity Fair’s ‘Hollywood’ Book
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Valentino ‘At the Emperor’s Table’ Book
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Usborne ‘Treasure Island’ Book
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Usborne ‘Tales of King Arthur’ Book
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Usborne ‘See Inside How Things Work’ Book
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Usborne ‘Puzzle Farm’ Book
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Usborne ‘Olivier Twist’ Book
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Usborne ‘Myths and Legends’ Book
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Zaq ‘Dew’ Essential Oil Diffuser
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Women’s Institute ‘Within Living Memory’ Book
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Tim Walker ‘The Granny Alphabet’ Book
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Threshold ‘White Wood’ Paper Tray
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The Folio Society ‘Richard III’ Book
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Terry Wolsey ‘Elizabeth of Glamis’ Book
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Sugar Paper ‘The Desk’ Calendar
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Siri Pettersen ‘Evna’ Book
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Simon Welfare ‘Days of Majesty’ Book
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Samsung ’49-Inch Curved’ Monitor
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Robert Hughes ‘Late and Soon’ Book
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Roald Dahl ‘Memories with Food’ Book
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