The bloodiest battle of WWI (To the centenary of the end of the Somme River Operation)
The article is devoted to one of the most important operations of the First World War of 1914-1918, the Somme River Operation carried by the allied British and French troops against Germans on the Western Front (Northern France). The authors prove the operation revealed complete military and economic superiority of the Entente. The article discusses the operation in details and shows it involved a large number of troops and equipment, especially artillery and aircraft, while the number of killed in action was the greatest in the history of the First World War.