This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916 - the single bloodiest day in British military history ...

The cycles with this logo were made in the town of Albert in the Somme region between 1906-1913, just before WWI broke out; ...

In 2017, Kate Garraway listed Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong as her “all-time favourite” novel. The heartbreaking story, published in 1993, is the British author’s fourth, and is considered ...

At a vigil in France, the Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, saying “we lost the flower of a generation”. Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the ...

The cycles with this logo were made in the town of Albert in the Somme region between 1906-1913, just before WWI broke out; ...

A World War I diary journaling the Battle of the Somme has been found in a barn in ... “Alice sent him a new address book, which he used as a diary from Oct. 1916. That, too, has been lost.” ...

Yockelson wrote the book Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918 (published by the University of Oklahoma Press). On April 10, 2025, Yockelson discussed this book as the guest ...

Ninety per cent bored stiff, nine per cent frozen stiff and one per cent scared stiff. That was - historian Andy Robertshaw says - the experience of most soldiers in WWI.

In fact, the average daily casualty rate across both sides in Normandy was ­6,870 – and that figure was higher than the Somme, Passchendaele and Verdun in the ­First World War, normally ...

Perhaps that’s wrong. After all, tomorrow marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and NZ forces during WW1 and is supposed to be a reminder of service and ...