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Episode 135: The Somme’s Northern Disaster
At 7.30am on the morning of 1st July 1916, whistles blew along a front stretching more than twenty miles. Tens of thousands of British soldiers climbed from their trenches and began walking towards the German lines. By nightfall nearly 20,000 of them would be dead. It remains the bloodiest day in British military history. But that catastrophe was not evenly spread across the battlefield. Some sectors were disasters.
Others achieved limited success. To understand what happened, we need to begin in the north, where the British offensive would suffer its greatest failures.
A Family History of the Somme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHGcFvlDUds
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- Editing: Sander van Kammen
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By Dan Hill and Dr. Spencer Jones
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At 7.30am on the morning of 1st July 1916, whistles blew along a front stretching more than twenty miles. Tens of thousands of British soldiers climbed from their trenches and began walking towards the German lines. By nightfall nearly 20,000 of them would be dead. It remains the bloodiest day in British military history. But that catastrophe was not evenly spread across the battlefield. Some sectors were disasters.
Others achieved limited success. To understand what happened, we need to begin in the north, where the British offensive would suffer its greatest failures.
A Family History of the Somme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHGcFvlDUds
Join Our Community: https://not-so-quiet.com/
Use our code: Dugout and get one month free as a Captain.
Support via Paypal: https://battleguide.co.uk/nsq-paypal
Do you like our podcast?
Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!
E-Mail: [email protected]
Battle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVT
Our WW2 Podcast: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsow
If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter
Twitter:
@historian1914
@DanHillHistory
@BattleguideVT
Credits:
- Host: Dr. Spencer Jones & Dan Hill
- Guest: James Taub
- Production: Linus Klaßen
- Editing: Sander van Kammen
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