Somme, 1916: In one of the bloodiest battles in history - the battle of the Somme, in France, more than 300 thousand young soldiers died. What for? Second lieutenant and poet, Wilfred Owen, who was killed on 4 November 1918, only one week before the end of the war, is the author of the best known poem of the World War One – "Dulce et Decorum Est". Here is the end of this poem:  

"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest 
To children ardent for some desperate glory,  
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est  
Pro patria mori."

("Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori" is a Latin saying, taken from an ode by Horace and means: "It is sweet and glorious to die for your homeland.")