Battle of the Somme: 110 Years On – 1 July 1916
At 7:28 a.m. on 1 July 1916, a whistle shrieked along the British line and thousands of men climbed wooden ladders out of the earth and into the summer morning. Within seconds, the German machine guns that a week-long bombardment had utterly failed to silence opened up across the chalk downland of Picardy, and...
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