Battle Story: Somme 1916

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Andrew Robertshaw is an acclaimed World War I historian and was the lead historical consultant for Steven Spielberg's "War Horse." He is heading up a major new archaeological project on Beaumont Hamel, as well as leading battlefield tours for the British Army. In 2012 he constructed a full-scale trench replica which is now a BBC filming location and educational facility. He is the author of "Somme 1 July 1916: Tragedy and Triumph."

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One of the bloodiest conflicts in military history, the Battle of the Somme raged from 1 July to 18 November 1916. It has come to signify for many the waste and bloodshed of the First World War as hundreds of thousands of men on all sides lost their lives fighting over small gains in land.