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

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The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

Perhaps it's the trench warfare -- mud, boredom and little forward motion. A murky understanding of the geopolitical climate of the time. That Americans only entered in the waning year of the conflict ...