The first battle between Germany and Britain in World War One took place not on the muddy fields of France but in the scrub land of Togo. Keen to compete with its European rivals, Germany acquired ...

WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster? documentWW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster? The first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916, was the bloodiest day of World ...

"Right from the very start of the war and certainly from 1915 ... Grandfather spotted in iconic WW1 photo WW1: One of the last men to die The 299 pages that changed Britain "It was a necessary ...

Somme, one of World War One's bloodiest, was fought in northern France and lasted five months, with the British suffering almost 60,000 casualties on the first day alone. At a vigil in France ...