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Trench Warfare - The Battle of the Somme 1916.
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Trench Warfare The Battle of the Somme 1916 The battle of the Somme was between 1st July and 19th November 1916. On the first day of battle there were already 60,000 casualties of British troops, this was the worst day of slaughter in the history of the British Army. Nearly 190,000 men lied under the battlefield at the end of the battle. So as you can see just from this information the war was very bloody and tragic but it was not all a failure as that battle helped technology on fighting and improved it. The book which source A comes from is published in 1976 so therefore it is published on the 60th anniversary to remember or celebrate the dead that died in the Somme and so maybe he is critical of the battle. I assume the author is a 'he' because the source tells me he could have been in the...
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