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World War I Diary Recounting The Horrific Battle Of The Somme Found In The U.K.
A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
A Bold New History of the Battle of the Somme
The Germans had been methodically preparing for an attack in the Somme sector; the first two lines of German trenches had been built long before, and the third was under way. The German staff had ...
BBC2y
What was life like on the front line in World War One?
The British army started an offensive in the trenches near the river Somme, forcing the German army to divert some of their troops away from Verdun. For seven days, the British fired 3 million ...
CBC.ca3mon
The Bloodiest Battle
The Battle of the Somme lasted five months in 1916 and placed young men on both sides of the war in the middle of a protracted hell. Pictured here, Canadian soldiers returning from the trenches of ...
Smithsonian Magazine2y
Europe’s Landscape Is Still Scarred by World War I
In this image by Irish landscape photographer Michael St. Maur Sheil at the site of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, you can trace grass-covered trenches and pockmarks from exploded ...
RTE Online1mon
Germans recall Somme ‘bloodbath’
According to Gibbs, news of the horrors of the Somme were conveyed to more securely ... ‘intense smell of putrefaction which filled the trench – almost unbearable. The corpses lay either ...