Download or read book Flers & Gueudecourt written by Trevor Pidgeon and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flers is of course best remembered for the first use of tanks in modern war. But the battles at Flers and Gueudecourt were also memorable as forming part of the last great advance of the British Army in this slogging match that was the Battle of the Somme in 1916.