Foerword / Sir Hew Strachan

The context of the Somme / Lothar Höbelt

Attrition or annihilation? / Oberst Dr Gerhard Groß

French strategy in 1916 and the battle of the Somme / Georges-Henri Soutou

Air war over the Somme / James S. Corum

The British Army's Operations on the Somme / Stuart Mitchell

Trial and Error / Lieutenant Colonel (Ret'd) Christopher Pugsley ONZM

French generalship on the Somme / Michael S. Neiberg

The road to modern combined arms warfare / Oberstleutnant Dr Christian Stachelbeck

British tactical practice during the Somme campaign / Bill Mitchinson

The German Army at war / Matthias Strohn

The evolution of French tactics 1914-16 / Jonathan Krause

The long shadows of the Somme / Major General (Ret'd) Mungo Melvin CB OBE.