The Battle of the Somme, of which 1st July was just the first, disastrous day, raged for another four months, and was vital not only in diverting German forces away from their assault on the ...

In the current issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Joseph Loconte describes the horrors of the first day of the Battle of the Somme: At 7 a.m. on July 1, 1916, the British Army unleashed a hellish ...

A staggering 22,000 men lost their lives on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. The largest battle of the First World War would continue until November, with Allied and ...

One hundred years ago this week, the greatest battle of the First World War began — the Battle of the Somme. Hope died that day, and the modern age began. The River Somme wanders through bucolic ...

who illustrated a massive panorama of the first day of the battle, spoke to NPR in 2013. Here's what we wrote then: "The battle began on 7:30 a.m., July 1, 1916, on the river Somme in France.

Fought between July and November 1916, the Battle of the Somme was one of the defining events of the First World War and the largest battle on the western front. It saw over one million wounded ...

Arlene Foster, Northern Ireland’s first minister, has revealed that her husband’s great-uncle was wounded at the Somme but survived the battle. Foster, who is in northern France today for the ...

The figures aim to show the scale of death on the first day of the battle Figurines representing each of the 19,240 British soldiers who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme have been ...

Why the Battle of the Somme was so significant How the First World War began The most moving First World War poems The unbelievably horrific conditions and sheer number of dead make the Somme one ...

A staggering 22,000 men lost their lives on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. The largest battle of the First World War would continue until November, with ...