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How the Somme exposed the horrors of trench warfare

This video illustrates the catastrophic scale of the Battle of the Somme, the deadliest campaign of World War One. Animated maps and visuals show how the offensive unfolded across fortified trenches ...
CNN

Battle of the Somme: Men in World War I uniforms pay tribute

Streets throughout the United Kingdom were transformed Friday into scenes reminiscent of World War I. It’s the 100-year anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and people across the country paid homage ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune

Somme changed war, world

WASHINGTON – The walk began at 7:30 a.m., July 1, 1916, when British infantry advanced toward German trenches. Eight British soldiers fell per second. By nightfall 19,240 were dead, another 38,230 ...
Star Tribune

The Somme at 100: Trench battle showed war's terrible learning curve

The mine exploded on schedule at 7:20 a.m., 100 years ago, July 1, 1916. British sappers had tunneled for months under the no man's land separating the Allied British-French trenches from those of the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Bold New History of the Battle of the Somme

Railway Hollow Cemetery, the site of 107 burials Simon Norfolk / INSTITUTE Point 110 Cemetery, with a Cross of Sacrifice at its entrance Simon Norfolk / INSTITUTE France has some 280 burial grounds ...
Mashable

The Battle of the Somme

On July 1, 1916, the first shots were fired in what would become one of the bloodiest engagements in human history, the 141-day Battle of the Somme. It was nearly two years into what was then being ...
Fox News

Diary from World War I discovered in barn, recounts bloody Battle of the Somme

A British soldier’s battered World War I diary recounting the bloody Battle of the Somme has been discovered in a U.K. barn. The diary, which was written in pencil by Private Arthur Edward Diggens of ...
Mental Floss

Armageddon – The Somme

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 242nd installment in the series. It was the worst day in British history as measured in bloodshed, with ...
Los Angeles Times

Europe pauses to remember 100th anniversary of Battle of the Somme, the deadliest battle of World War I

Reporting from THIEPVAL, France — One week after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, British Prime Minister David Cameron and members of the royal family were standing side-by-side with France ...

Bitter Harvest – Frank McNally on the darker side of farming in Flanders and the Somme

One of the finest memorials on the Somme is the round tower at the Ireland Peace Park in Messines, erected in the late 1990s.
The Argus

Bloodiest day of WW1 remembered 100 years on at Somme memorial

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