The Somme

The year 1916 will long be remembered as the beginning of modern mass-death warfare where tanks and other industrial products quickly overran traditional troop formations. A new analysis of the notorious Battle of the Somme, using archives from both sides not previously available, finds that although there was tragic loss of many lives, the battle may have hurt the Germans even more than the British, and it taught an inexperienced British Army the hard way how to fight a modern war.