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A British soldier’s battered World War I diary recounting the bloody Battle of the Somme has been discovered in a U.K. barn. The diary, which was written in pencil by Private Arthur Edward Diggens of ...

The Battle of the Somme’s horrific futility dominates our memories, yet there are aspects of the battle that pointed, however weakly, to how and why the war would finally end For much of what was then ...

I met him one night at a dining facility, or DFAC, at a base in Kabul in 2009. He was young, energetic, sharp, and eager to fight terrorists and the Taliban. The officer was impressive. Two days later ...

The Somme, a quiet river that meanders across northwest France, lent its name to four battles, from 1914 to 1918. The second and greatest — fought in the lush fields of Picardy — lasted 4½ months and ...

WASHINGTON – The walk began at 7:30 a.m., July 1, 1916, when British infantry advanced toward German trenches. Eight British soldiers fell per second. By nightfall 19,240 were dead, another 38,230 ...

One of the bloodiest battles of the First World War, the Battle of the Somme, was fought seventy-three years ago. To commemorate the half a million Irishmen who fought in the First World War, the ...

The mine exploded on schedule at 7:20 a.m., 100 years ago, July 1, 1916. British sappers had tunneled for months under the no man's land separating the Allied British-French trenches from those of the ...

The Somme conjures up visions of World War I battlefields. People from around the world are drawn to this part of northern France for what has become known as remembrance tourism, and visiting the ...

On Dominion Day, 1916, Canadians awoke to headlines that told of a million shells being fired at the German positions on the Somme River in Picardy. On Monday, July 3, their papers reported that ...

International ceremonies are being held today to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme's final day. Around 2,000 guests will gather in the northern French village of Thiepval, which has been ...