The British generals staged a massive artillery bombardment and sent 100,000 men over the top to take the German trenches. They were confident of victory. But the British soldiers were unable to ...

He was among thousands of soldiers in the British Expeditionary Force who fought ... Bagpipes were carried into other battles during WW1, and again during World War Two. Piper Daniel Laidlaw ...

Falkenhayn hoped to combine the Verdun offensive with a U-Boat offensive against British shipping ... that meant relying on a single road. General Falkenhayn was notoriously secretive and shared ...