Battle of the Somme
May 11th 2015 Today I moved from looking at WWII sites to looking at WWI sites. The Somme River and the battles that took place here, especially in 1916, have come to epitomize the futility of WWI trench warfare. My first stop was the excellent Historial de la Grande Guerre, a museum in PĂ©ronne, France that clearly and concisely lays out the history of WWI. It does not indulge in patriotic boosterism, but inst
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