That attack 100 years ago was the long-awaited “Big Push”—the beginning of the Somme Offensive and the ... in the first 15 minutes of the battle. “It was about this time that my feeling ...

A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...

Poor Angéline, it is the worst sight that a man ever wants to see." 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 ...

Today marks 100 years since the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest day of the First World War – and in British military history. And this morning, commuters across the UK came ...

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 ...

The Battle of the Somme was launched on 1 July 1916. The main aim of the battle was to relieve the important northern French fortress of Verdun. This had been placed under siege by the German Army ...