I am very blissful that I am talking to you and I’m glad to be alive. My fellow soldier’s and I have just been through the deadliest battle of our lives, the Battle Of Somme. The Germans call the battle “The Blood Bath” that is because 60 000 soldiers died in that one day. This incident was because of our senseless commander Sir Douglas Haig, he led all of us to our graves but, some of us have lived to tell about it. Sir Douglas was a British general and commanded us at the battle in Verdun. After 2 weeks of heavy shelling, Sir Douglas gave us the order to go “over the top” which means that we have to go over the trenches and fight head on. Little did we know that the Germans were safely in their trenches, waiting for the shelling to stop and
