Thursday, February 22, 2007

Forgotten WW I Soldier's diary describes horror on the battlefield

A British soldier's pocket diary of life in the trenches during the early days of the Battle of the Somme have been made public for the first time.-a moving account of the first day during which more than 62,000 comrades died-had to scramble over the bodies of three soldiers he knew, lying with their heads blown apart



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