Time

7 WWI Books to Read on the Battle of the Somme’s Centennial

July 1, 1916, marked the beginning of a nearly five-months-long fight on the banks of the Somme river in northern France. By the time the battle ended on Nov. 18, French, British and German forces had ...
Newsweek

The Battle of the Somme Marked a Turning Point In World War I

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original article. The British offensive on the Somme began on July 1, 1916. After 20 weeks, they had advanced six miles. The German ...
Business Insider

It's been 100 years since the start of one of history's bloodiest battles

Friday July 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. Somme, estimated to be the bloodiest in World War I, lasted for five months. The first day of the battle was the ...
The Independent

The Somme: 1 July 1916

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
BBC

The Somme: The battle that France forgot

When President Hollande attends the centenary on Friday, he will be the first French head of state at a Somme commemoration in more than 80 years. President De Gaulle did not attend the 50th ...
Mashable

The Battle of the Somme

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 ...
The Independent

Shot on the Somme: Extraordinary footage taken seconds before soldiers went over the top

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Bold New History of the Battle of the Somme

Railway Hollow Cemetery, the site of 107 burials Simon Norfolk / INSTITUTE Point 110 Cemetery, with a Cross of Sacrifice at its entrance Simon Norfolk / INSTITUTE France has some 280 burial grounds ...
The Irish Times

The Somme: never were so many sacrificed for so little

Very successful attack this morning… All went like clockwork… The battle is going very well for us and already the Germans are surrendering freely … – Haig, on day one of the Somme: 19,000 British ...
The Atlantic

The Lessons of the Somme

On this first day of July, exactly 100 years ago, the peoples of the British Empire suffered the greatest military disaster in their history. A century later, “the Somme” remains the most harrowing ...
Le Monde.fr

In France's Somme, bagpipers keep the memory of the Great War alive

FeatureOn the site of the bloodiest battle of World War I, residents of Ovillers-la-Boisselle uphold the tradition of the bagpipers from Scottish, Irish, Canadian and Australian regiments who lost ...