not too fast please
Over the top
In order to attack the enemy, men had to climb over the parapet of the trenches and they had to cross No Man's Land. On July 1st, 1916, the French and British military forces launched an attack on the German army in the Somme. It was disastrous. On the first day alone, the British lost 60,000 men. The battle ended on November 14th, over 1.3 million men were killed and the Allies just won 6 miles of territory. This is how one officer described "going over the top" with his soldiers at the Somme: "You try to calm everybody and try not to show how terrified you are. Then you start the countdown: ten, nine, eight…You blow the whistle . You climb out of the trench and through the hole in the barbed wire . You lie there for everyone to get out . Some of them are already dead or wounded . Then you stand up and start running , across No Man's Land , towards a line of machine guns, with artillery firing all around."
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