Battle Story: Somme 1916
Category: Book
By Robert Shaw
Understand what happened and why at one of the worst battles of the First World War.
One of the bloodiest conflicts in military history, the Battle of the Somme raged from 1 July to 18 November 1916. It has come to signify for many the waste and bloodshed of the First World War as hundreds of thousands of men on all sides lost their lives fighting over small gains in land.