The brutal horror of the Battle of the Somme is unveiled in colourised photos ... Hitler would ultimately receive a leg wound, while Tolkien developed trench fever and had to be taken to a ...

The battle took place in northern France, along the upper reaches of the River Somme, in a morass of mud ... no man’s land to assault the German trenches. While the French and some portions ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most devastating battles in history, with over one million casualties in just five months. Intended to break the stalemate of trench warfare, the offensive ...

Rats terrorized the trenches. Rain turned the battlefield into a nightmarish landscape of mud and corpses. American-born poet Mary Borden, who ran a military hospital at the Battle of the Somme ...

But at no place had the German second line of trenches — part of the original ... Robbins among them — who argue that the Somme and subsequent battles were a necessary, though bloody and ...

The Battle of the Somme would rage on ... as a battalion signals officer with the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers until trench fever took him out of the war. It was during this period that he laid ...

The Battle of the Somme, one of WW1's bloodiest ... who endured the clinging mud and squalor of the trenches." Prime Minister David Cameron read the words of Corporal Jim Crow, 110th Brigade ...

Before the first infantry advance, the British army fired 1,738,000 shells in the hope of destroying German trenches ... in a way the battles of Mons and Ypres had not. The Somme was filmed ...

to trenches and barbed wire and men going “over the top” to near-certain death. Battles at Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele come to mind. Grim scenes from the front lines in Belgium and ...

This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive ... to break the deadlock of trench warfare. But behind the myths lies the story of an elaborately-planned battle, fought against a ...