Battle of the Somme

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• 7-31-16
  

  How a Story About the Battle of the Somme Can Help Us See What’s Happening in Our Own Time

  by William Lambers

  What are we blind to? Farm communities are suffering worldwide.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-30-16
  

  ‘Our casualties not heavy’: how British press covered the Battle of the Somme

  by John Jewell

  Even if reporters had wished to “tell the truth” and their copy had made it past the censors, then the editors and proprietors back home would have ensured that their writing did not see the light of day.

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  6-8-16
  

  43% of Britons don’t know the Battle of the Somme was in WWI

  The group that expressed the least knowledge about the battle was the "baby boomer" generation, with 88 percent of those aged 55 to 64 saying they knew little or nothing about it.

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• 11-11-13
  

  Veterans Day, Ninety-Five Years On

  by Adam Hochschild and Joe Sacco

  The enduring folly of the Battle of the Somme.