The Battle of the Somme was one of the most significant campaigns of World War One, as the Allied forces attempted to break through the German front line in northern France, 1916. This interactive ...

This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916 - the single bloodiest day in British military history. 57,000 British soldiers became casualties, most within a few hours of the ...

Life in the trenches of World War One was very difficult. The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in 1916, was the deadliest day in the history of the British army. The end of World War One and ...

It was one of the bloodiest battles in the history of mankind. For many, the Battle of the Somme symbolises the horrors of World War One and epitomises the futility of trench warfare. When the battle ...

The Battle of the Somme lasted ... all gone - one blur of mangled flesh - and body whole and sound ... All are so brave, and yet those who are not badly wounded are so tired of the war, tired ...

The Battle of the Somme is particularly important in British memory ... a total of over 1,000,000 men from both sides were captured, wounded, or killed and the war raged on for two more years.

A World War One medal has been returned after being ... He was killed in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme, leaving behind a wife and daughter. Now the medal has been returned to Mr Dove's ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Army History No. 124, SUMMER 2022 THE MEUSE-ARGONNE WAS NOT THE SOMME: The... THE MEUSE-ARGONNE WAS ...

At one side of the ... persuaded Germany’s war-lords that they had lost the First World War lay along this road. You can draw it with a ruler on a map. At first it runs parallel to the marshy, ...

It’s thought that 250,000 ‘boy soldiers’ were recruited and fought in World War One In our series The Great War ... a commanding officer to return their underage son. The Battle of the Somme was a ...

The First World War is considered to be one of the most savage episodes in the annals of war… The scale and detail of the slaughter at Flanders, Passchendale, the Somme, Ypres as recorded by those who ...

BBC drama programming to mark the centenary of World ... the battle of the Somme, the Eastern Front and the arrival of American Forces. The story looks at all aspects of the war – from the ...