The Battle of the Somme, in the diary of a British soldier: «I slept for about an hour a day, always standing up. Often, when from sheer exhaustion I doze off, I’m awakened by a rat on my shoulder.»

The Battle of the Somme, in the diary of a British soldier: «I slept for about an hour a day, always standing up. Often, when from sheer exhaustion I doze off, I’m awakened by a rat on my shoulder.»

The lost diary of a soldier reveals the daily dramas of the soldiers, illustrating a bleak reality, marked by soldiers who killed their own comrades in the confusion of battle. The soldier was called Harry Drinkwater and he describes the Battle of the Somme in...