Over the Top: Remembering the Sacrifices of the Somme

By Iain Harrison

I’m driving northeast from Paris with the intention of doing something seemingly pointless, at best, and mawkishly self-indulgent at worst. I’m rolling along manicured autoroutes, passing medieval villages and fields which have been cultivated for millennia. In an hour or so, I’ll park, walk a couple hundred yards and look at a few letters chipped into a rock. Then, I’ll… more …Read the Rest

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