WW1 battlefields turned into ‘liquid graves’ by a one-in-100-year ‘climate anomaly’
Scientists have pinpointed a freak ‘climate anomaly’ which they say was to blame for ‘substantially’ increasing casualties during the First World War and in its aftermath. In total, some 8.5million troops died fighting between 1914 and 1918, with some of the heaviest losses coming on the waterlogged battlefields of Verdun, the Somme and Ypres, as … Read more
