... Saturday and Sundayv. “Zeppelin” is set in 1915. Opposing armies are locked in the futile struggle and carnage of the battle of the Somme. With men dying in their thousands, fighting to gain a few feet of land, a new menace looms high: the Zeppelin, an airship ...

... Western Canada, On the outbreak of the 1914 war he enlisted in the Canadian Infantry and was so severely wounded at the battle of the Somme that his right leg had to be removed. Since then he has lived in British Columbia where he married again following the ...

... NON-FICTION The Battle of Verdun, described by Georges Blon in “Verdun” was the “hinge of fate” for the French Army, the prelude to the Battle of the Somme. It became as much a legend as Ypres was for the British. Joffre, Petain, Nivelle, Mangin, von ...

... the Ist Battalion | Cameron’s life was his unfailing towards the end of 1915. At the|loyalty to St. Magnus Episcopal Battle of the Somme the following | Church, of which he was patron. year he was wounded by shrapnel |On the roughest Sunday mornings in ...

... Highlander in the 2% the foot of Burns Lane. (first World War, he was wounded When Mr Stove married the for'at the Battle of the Somme, but mer livhss Jesdsxfe CtithermetalSalndp |later saw i B son, he moved further up the lan: East. aw active service ...

... blunder that was the Battle of the Somme—and of the tragedy, horror and courage associated with that great battle. It is a critical, but extremely readable account of the policy, planning and action of the British and French armies in a battle where the British ...