July 1 in the Somme (1916): Errors and achievements of the British Army in the worst day of his military history
Abstract
1916 marked the year of stabilization on all fronts of the Great War. After the massacres in the fields of land and sea battle, mainly, the options to achieve a resolution of the conflict through adjudicative proceedings was minimized. From the horrors of war, the first day of the battle of the Somme will go down in history as the bloodiest day in British military history. Pressed by the French bleed, full pressed by allies and employing military tactics wrong, thousands of young Britons were taken to a certain death in the hitherto flowered files Somme River.
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