Dawn on the Somme, 15 September 1916. At 06:20, the whistles blew and men climbed from their trenches into the attack. But this morning, something else moved with them - steel monsters clanking forward on tracks, belching fumes, and crushing wire. The world’s first tanks would go into battle at Flers–Courcelette. What happened that day has been remembered as both a marvel of invention and a muddled gamble. Today, we’ll unpack the reality behind the myth.

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Credits:

- Host: Dr. Spencer Jones & Dan Hill

- Production: Linus Klaßen

- Editing: Hunter Christensen & Linus Klaßen

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