Battle of the Somme

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Battle of the Somme
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Stanford History Education Group

The Battle of the Somme was a definitive campaign of the First World War. Unprecedented casualties resulted from intense trench warfare and new military technologies. In this lesson, students analyze and compare three different accounts of the battle's first day: one from a British journalist who paints a rosy picture of the Allied offensive and two from combatants that provide starkly different portraits of the event.