Courcelette

Courcelette is one of the many Somme villages that became a German stronghold in their tenacious fight to keep the British armies at bay. Well behind the lines on 1 July, it came into prominence on 15 September when it fell to an attack by the Canadians.

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Some books that may interest you

Hell's Highway By: Major Tim Saunders	Cox's Navy By: Tony Booth	Allied Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the Second World War By: Michael Green
The German Army on the Somme 1914-1916 By: Jack Sheldon	The Red Air Force at War Barbarossa and the Retreat to Moscow By: Artem Drabkin	Churchill's Secret Invasion By: John Grehan
British Battles of the Napoleonic Wars 1793 - 1806 By: John Grehan, Martin Mace	Pegasus - The Heart of the Harrier By: Andrew Dow	A Sturdy Race of Men By: Alan Grint