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 ...

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 ...

St John was posted to the Somme in 1916 where he was responsible for leading men more than twice his age into the biggest offensive of the war: an offensive which saw him injured on the first day ...

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 ...

He was killed in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme, leaving behind a wife and ... also worked at Thornley pit before the First World War, but was exempt from war duties due to injury.