It was also the longest battle, lasting 300 days and leaving an estimated 800,000 soldiers dead, wounded or missing ... of the Kamina wireless station. WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme ...

On the first day, the German Army suffered around 6,000 casualties - mostly at the hands of the French on the southern part of the Somme. The French, for their part, managed to take all their ...

By nightfall, 150 French soldiers were dead. The French retaliated, killing thousands of Spaniards. It was the start of a brutal, no-holds-barred war, marked by savagery on both sides. The French ...

Here's the set-up: On a WW1 battlefield French Private Gabriel (Louis Peres) is wounded. His family is told he is dead. In ...