The Battle of the Somme is known as one of the most significant and disastrous battles of the history. When studied, we concentrate on the …show more content…
With a shockingly large number of losses and quite the amount of failures and lessons learnt, it has become a historic event of wide significance. The military successes and failures (specially on the first day of the battle) had a great impact on the battlefield and away in the home front both on the short and long term. People on the home front suffered effects such as shell shock, which was considered by many as ‘torture’ and would have preferably died. Tactical developments also had significance as with every failure or success new lessons were learnt and progress made. This led to a stronger army overall helping defeat the German Empire in the end and making the Battle of the Somme one of the most significant battles in