A detailed look at the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916, one of the deadliest military operations of World War I.

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 ...

A knitted poppy blanket created by residents of a Herefordshire village is set to travel to Albert, France, where it will form part of the Battle ...

Philpott, a military historian at King’s College, London, comprehensively challenges the enduring image of the Battle of the Somme (July–November 1916) as an indecisive, futile encounter in a ...

Church bells rang in villages across a patch of northern France on Saturday, marking the moment 90 years ago that launched one of history’s bloodiest episodes, the Battle of the Somme. The poignant ...

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX, France – For such a stunningly beautiful part of the world, it’s hard to fathom the horrific carnage that took place here more than a century ago on the Western Front during World ...

BRITISH Commander-in-Chief Sir Douglas Haig called a halt to his army’s offensive near the Somme River in northwestern France, ending the epic Battle of the Somme on November 18, 1916. With the French ...

THIEPVAL, France (AP) — A 100-year-old trench, its edges now smoothed over by verdant overgrowth, snakes through a French meadow. Craters carved by bombs in the Battle of the Somme still pock the ...

Soldiers, politicians, royalty and ordinary citizens stood in silence, heads bowed, on Friday in ceremonies across Britain and France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of ...