The man primarily responsible for the greatest disaster in British military history was General Sir Douglas Haig, whose over-optimistic planning under-estimated enemy strength and ignored lessons to ...

London, 30 December 1916 - The Battle of the Somme succeeded in meeting its objectives. That’s the verdict of the Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary Force in Europe, General Sir Douglas ...

Today marks the 90th anniversary of the Somme, RICHARD FOSTER and ANDREW HITCHON look at four books featuring the controversial battle. The Somme by Peter Hart (Cassell, £10.99); Soldier From The Wars ...

IT happened all over Scotland. In Glasgow, the crowd was so big it overflowed from George Square into the adjoining streets. Many people hung out of windows to get a good view; some even climbed on to ...

What was the Battle of the Somme? Fought between July and November 1916, the Battle of the Somme was one of the defining events of the First World War and the largest battle on the western front. It ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest of World War One, with more than one million people killed or wounded. It lasted five months as the British and French Armies fought the Germans on a ...

“It was a sunny morning, that of July 1st, 1916,” the poet Edmund Blunden recalled in a broadcast of 1928. The right notes for it would have been the singing of blackbirds and the ringing of the ...

On 1 July 1916, the British Army attacked the German front line on the Somme in an ill-planned and over-ambitious offensive. Advancing soldiers were slaughtered by machine guns and artillery fire as ...