The Allied High Command decided to attack the Germans to the North of Verdun, forcing the Germans to move some of their men away from the Verdun battlefield ... The Battle of the Somme has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Battle of the Somme raged for 141 days from July to November 1916 ... Beset by a number of mechanical and technical failures, the tanks often broke down on the battlefield rendering them useless.

A ceremony at the Lochnagar crater on the battlefield was ... at Westminster Abbey. The battle saw more than one million men killed and wounded on all sides. Somme, one of World War One's ...

On October 3, 1914, the first wave of recruits - 31,000 Canadians - set sail for the battlefields ... of Somme, one of the most deadly of the war. Canada's great victory at the Battle of Vimy ...

An Eala Bhàn' (The White Swan) was penned by the North Uist poet Dòmhnall Chorùna as he recovered from injuries sustained in the Battle of the Somme, as his thoughts drifted home to Magaidh ...

Peter Flory, a former NATO Assistant Secretary General, stated that the war in Ukraine resembles the Battle of the Somme from World ... on the 21st-century battlefield," summarizes "El Mundo." ...