Battle of the Somme

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. A moment before the whistles blew, in the morning of July 1, 1916, when the Battle of the Somme began, the No Man''s Land, into which our men advanced, was a strip of earth without life, made smoky, dusty, and dim b...