At 7 a.m. on July 1, 1916, the British Army unleashed a hellish assault against German positions on the Western Front in France, along the River Somme. The roar was so loud that it was heard in London ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original article. The British offensive on the Somme began on July 1, 1916. After 20 weeks, they had advanced six miles. The German ...

The mine exploded on schedule at 7:20 a.m., 100 years ago, July 1, 1916. British sappers had tunneled for months under the no man's land separating the Allied British-French trenches from those of the ...

A British soldier’s battered World War I diary recounting the bloody Battle of the Somme has been discovered in a U.K. barn. The diary, which was written in pencil by Private Arthur Edward Diggens of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BELLOY-EN-SANTERRE, FRANCE — In the end, Alan Seeger’s bones could no longer be distinguished from those of his Foreign Legion comrades who had fallen ...

There have been a plethora of new books about the Battle of the Somme. Daniel Todman reviewed several in an article for the Financial Times (FT), entitled “Stories of the Somme”. One of the books ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The Allied offensive in the Battle of the ...

On 1 July 1916, 57,000 British soldiers became casualties in just a few hours. The Battle of the Somme changed the course of WWI.

On the 1st July 1916the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers part of 29th Division were tasked with capturing part of Beaumont Hamel The 29th Division had recently arrived on the Western front from Gallipoli ...