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The year 1916 was the year of the Battle of the Somme.
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The year 1916 was the year of the Battle of the Somme. As the year opened, the two great opposing armies remained deadlocked in a line of trenches which stretched 966 kilometres from the Belgian coast through France to the frontiers of Switzerland. Here, men faced each other over the strewn, decaying wastes of No Man's Land, and confronted the realities of dirt, disease and death. Source A is taken from a book about the trench warfare by an English historian who was published in 1976. As shown in the provenance, the extract has been published in 1976, exactly 60 years from the Battle itself. It may have been written to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Battle and think of the soldiers who had died to honour for their country. The extract may have been written by an English historian in order for him to be critical of...
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