World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.

Second Battle of the Somme

1918 battle on the Western Front of World War I

The Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought during the First World War on the Western Front from late August to early September, in the basin of the River Somme. It was part of a series of successful counter-offensives in response to the German Spring Offensive, after a…