7 WWI Books to Read on the Battle of the Somme’s Centennial. 3 minute read. By Sarah Begley. June 30, 2016 12:00 PM EDT.

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most devastating battles in history, with over one million casualties in just five months. Intended to break the stalemate of trench warfare, the offensive ...

Poignant sound of whistles heard as tributes paid to the 20,000 British soldiers killed on the first day of the Battle of the ...

Louis de Cazenave, 110, a World War I veteran who took part in the Battle of the Somme, died Sunday, leaving one known French survivor of the 1914-18 conflict.

WWI ; World War I ... 2016 at 8:15 AM EDT. The 39th Siege Battery artillery in action during the Battle of the Somme, Fricourt-Mametz Valley, France, 1916.

By the time the battle of the Somme ended on Nov. 18, 1916, more than 1 million men were killed or wounded. That’s more than double the casualties suffered in the World War II D-Day invasion and ...

The Battle of the Somme was the first great offensive of WWI for the British. For five months, the British and French armies fought the Germans in a brutal bullet-fuelled battle on a 15-mile front.

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.

The Road to Verdun: World War I’s Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism By Ian Ousby Doubleday, 393 pages, $45 Writing in 1931, French man of letters Paul Valery pondered the cal… ...

The Battle of the Somme, which completes 100 years on July 1, 2016 was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire The Battle ...

The Battle of the Somme, one of WWI's bloodiest, was fought in northern France and lasted five months. The British and French armies fought the Germans in a brutal battle of attrition on a 15-mile ...

IN film, it’s not the thought that counts. And all “The Trench” has going for it is the worthy thought of commemorating the men and boys slaughtered at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 ...