1916 - The Battle of the Five Empires

The Battle of the Somme remains a controversial subject for the British to this day. Most accounts overlook the fact that the Somme was an Anglo-French offensive, carried out by French and British troops in almost equal numbers, led by Frenchmen. The battle was just one part of a much broader strategy, in which the Russians played a part, to defeat an actor that received little attention from most historians : the Austro-Hungarian empire.  Drawing on new historical sources, published on the