PUTIN’S forces are advancing in Ukraine slower than any army in more than 100 years – including allied efforts at the notoriously drudging Battle of The Somme. Mad Vlad’s desperate ...

A detailed look at the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916, one of the deadliest military operations of World War I.

On July 1, 1916, the first shots were fired in what would become one of the bloodiest engagements in human history, the 141-day Battle of the Somme. It was nearly two years into what was then being ...

Hundreds of people gathered early this morning to pay their respects to the 20,000 British soldiers who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme - 109 years ago today. They arrived at the huge ...

These stunning photographs show that, even though a century has passed, the scars of the Battle of the Somme still run deep on the fields of Flanders. A British photographer spent over 400 days in ...

A collection of more than 500 first-hand accounts, some of which have never been seen before, have revealed graphic details from the bloody Battle of the Somme. The collection of stories from 526 ...

The Somme, a quiet river that meanders across northwest France, lent its name to four battles, from 1914 to 1918. The second and greatest — fought in the lush fields of Picardy — lasted 4½ months and ...

Full coverage of the commemorations marking 100 years since the Battle of the Somme The Battle of the Somme was fought between 1 July and 18 November 1916, with over a million British, French and ...

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