France: Somme battlefields

36 photos taken in 2006, 90 years after the ghastly battle fought by the British and German Armies between 1 July and 18 November 1916. The French also took part, but were preoccupied with the equally grim (and much longer) struggle at Verdun, which the Somme battle was intended to relieve.

And finally 1...an unexploded shell, Froissy, 27 May 2012. A century after the Somme battles, hundreds of live shells are still recovered every year.

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And finally 1...an unexploded shell, Froissy, 27 May 2012. A century after the Somme battles, hundreds of live shells are still recovered every year.