Battles & Campaigns

At 7:30 in the morning on July 1, 1916, the whistles blew. Along a 27-kilometre stretch of the Western Front in northern France, approximately 120,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers climbed out of their trenches and began walking — in some places literally walking, not running — toward the German lines. They had been told the…

On the night of December 24, 1914, a British soldier peered over the edge of his trench and saw something that made no sense. Lights. Small, flickering lights, appearing one by one along the German trenches on the other side of No Man’s Land. At first he thought it was some kind of signal, or…