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 ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most significant campaigns of World War One, as the Allied forces attempted to break through the German front line in northern France, 1916. This interactive ...

AS Armistice Day approaches, EMMA CLAYTON looks back to the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, when she visited a French village where ...

As Britain marks the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, we look back on ten of the most important battles in history.

In 1916, Harold Wrong plucked a flower from the fields of Somme, France and tucked it into a letter he mailed home to Toronto ...

On September 17, Lee met General McClellan in the bloodiest single day of fighting in the war and in American history. Union ...

In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War ... in Hitler's favor. The battle that ensued is known ...

As we approach Remembrance Day on November 11, Sebastian Faulks’s epic tale of love and loss set during the first world war ...

The Battle of the Bay football game is steeped in tradition. Few have been entrenched in that tradition more than first-year Newport Harbor head coach Matt Burns, a 1994 graduate of the school and ...

The Battle of the Somme was launched on 1 July 1916. The main aim of the battle was to relieve the important northern French fortress of Verdun. This had been placed under siege by the German Army ...

Almost 2,000 soldiers from the 36th Ulster Division died on the first day of the Somme campaign. When it was withdrawn from the line, the division had won a reputation as courageous soldiers.

D-Day vet was told: 'You're the assault wave, you won't be coming back' AS his landing craft made its way to Juno beach, Alan King found himself surrounded by flames . . . and the heads ...