Germans March to Their Death; “Like a Scythe Had Mowed Them Down.” Romania Joins the War. Special to The Great War Project (16-19 August) The Battle of the Somme in northern France rages on. The two sides are locked in mad fury. Neither the British nor the Germans are capable of mounting a knock-out blow…
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A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH
by Mike Shuster
Slaughter at the Somme Incomprehensible. A Vision of Hell; The Sorrow of the Poet’s Song. Special to The Great War Project (2-5 July) The scale of the slaughter on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, July 1st a century ago, is now becoming sadly clear. It is nothing less than horrific. “The human…