including the first use of tanks. This documentary explores the brutal realities of the Somme, the strategic failures, and the long-term impact it had on the course of World War I. Federal judge ...

The historian A.J.P. Taylor summed up the battle: The Somme set the picture by which future generations saw the First World War; brave helpless soldiers; blundering obstinate generals; nothing ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916 ...

German soldiers at a remove from the front and the German general public at home were well aware of the horrors prevailing in France when the British and French launched a joint offensive along the ...

The Battle of the Somme lasted five months in 1916 and placed young men on both sides of the war in the middle of a protracted hell. Pictured here, Canadian soldiers returning from the trenches of ...