The Somme

The Somme

A hundred years ago tomorrow the battle of the Somme began on the Western Front. By the time that it ended, four and a half months later, more than a million innocent human beings had been butchered or maimed, physically and mentally, in the most appalling circumstances imaginable.

For me, it puts Britain's current and petty political squabbles with Europe into shameful perspective.

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