TY - BOOK AU - Masefield,John TI - The Old Front Line AV - D501 PY - 2007/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Front_Line; Release date is 2007-02-18; Produced by K Nordquist, David Edwards, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Old Front Line" by John Masefield is a military history book published in 1917. Written by an English poet, it describes the British Army's battlefield front-line from the first day of the Somme, July 1, 1916. Originally commissioned to write a full account of the Battle of the Somme, Masefield was denied access to official documents. Instead, he produced this lyrical eyewitness description of the terrain, creating perhaps the First World War's first battlefield guide. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20616 ER -