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 Battle of the Somme opened on July 1, ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest of World War One. The devastating conflict, which raged for five months in northern France, began on 1 July 1916, a hundred years ago. More than a ...

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 ...

Friday July 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. Somme, estimated to be the bloodiest in World War I, lasted for five months. The first day of the battle was the ...

Today, July 1 is the 100 th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. As I have written this week, there is no single battle in modern British history that has made a greater impression ...

Today I continue my exploration of the Battle of the Somme, which began on July 1, 1916. Daniel Todman writing in the Financial Times (FT), in an article entitled “Stories of the Somme”, insightfully ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme was the worst day in the history of the British Army. At 7:30am on July 1, 1916, thousands of British soldiers began an attack against a German trench line ...

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 ...

At dawn, they went over the top. By sunset, 57,000 were dead, wounded, or missing. This is the harrowing story of the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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 ...

THIEPVAL, France (AP) — A 100-year-old trench, its edges now smoothed over by verdant overgrowth, snakes through a French meadow. Craters carved by bombs in the Battle of the Somme still pock the ...