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Stories from the Somme

The Letters of Lieut. Raymond B. Penniman
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From July through November 1916, more than three million French, British and German soldiers fought along the Somme River in France – ending with more than a million casualties and only small shifts of territory in the end. See this terrifying battle through the eyes of Lieutenant Raymond B. Penniman of the Royal Canadian Army.

 

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