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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Overnight in London, an honor guard stood vigil at the grave of the Unknown Warrior. On Friday morning, across Great Britain, citizens observed a moment of silence. And midday Friday, at a quiet field ...

British troops advancing through front line trenches during the Battle of the Somme, 1916 The Battle of the Somme would go down in British history as one of the worst days of combat ever experienced ...

The cataclysmic Battle of the Somme began 100 years ago. “The Somme”. The two words have echoed chillingly across the last century. As World War I reached an appalling bloody climax, thousands of ...

A POWERFUL and poignant exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme opens tomorrow (Friday, March 24. Somme 1916: From Durham To The Western Front shows how ordinary ...

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 cover image on the issue of Scientific ...

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, ...