I entered the French military zone as a war correspondent ... his frontier with the exception of Alsace-Lorraine. An American WWI soldier writes a letter while encased in a trench.

He needed to weaken the French first. He planned to use ... was the bloodiest day of World War One for the British army. Where did it all go wrong? WW1: Has poetry distorted our view of the ...

On the first day, the German Army suffered around 6,000 casualties - mostly at the hands of the French on the southern part of the Somme. The French, for their part, managed to take all their ...