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Battle of the Somme

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Noun1.Battle of the SommeBattle of the Somme - battle of World War II (1944)        
Somme, Somme River
Second World War, World War 2, World War II - a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
2.Battle of the Somme - battle in World War I (1916)
Somme, Somme River
First World War, Great War, War to End War, World War 1, World War I - a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe


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That Tolkien was at the Battle of the Somme is without question, yet it is still worth recalling the nature of this five-month slaughter in order to begin to understand its effects on the young writer:
The shell-shocked hobbit: the First World War and Tolkien's trauma of ... by Livingston, Michael / Mythlore
A casual search of the Barnes & Noble bookstore Web site (this chain is the equivalent of the Canadian Chapters/Indigo stores) revealed that 20 books (new and re-prints of older titles) were published in 2005-06 on the Battle of the Somme alone.
The battle of the Somme--90th anniversary: the 1st newfoundland ... by Boyer, Robert L. / The Canadian Army Journal
Krikorian, noting the ``agitated'' revisions on the handwritten sheet, said he believes the ``ingenious devices'' phrase, which was added later, is a reference to the mechanized warfare Tolkien saw during the Battle of the Somme in World War I, when he served with the Lancashire Fusiliers and saw many of his closest friends killed.
A `HOBBIT-FORMING' PASSION IN CLASS PIERCE PROFESSOR LIVES IN MIDDLE ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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