Read more soldiers retreating and the dead being buried en masse. In The Great War, acclaimed cartoonist Joe Sacco depicts the events of that day in an extraordinary, 24-foot-long wordless panorama: from British soldiers going ‘over the top’ and being cut down in No-Man’s-Land, to the tens of thousands of wounded. On 1st July 1916, almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another 40,000 were wounded during the first day of The Somme. This monumental panorama captures the unimaginable horrors of that fateful day. AN ILLUSTRATED PANORAMA WITH AN ESSAY BY ADAM HOCHSCHILD The first day of the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomise the Great War. This title depicts the events of that day. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another 40,000 were wounded that first day, and there were more than one million casualties by the time the offensive halted a few months later. Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War.
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