Taking time to be here we are so delighted to have professor Margaret Mcmillon with us today. It really is a delight. Thank you so much for traveling to be with us on this important conversation and who will help us with that is better equipped than Margaret Mcmillon, americas Professor International history at oxford, professor of history at the university of toronto, she serves in a many and varied roles. Trustee of the Central European university and more recently, at the Imperial War Museum. We are second only here at the National World War One Museum and memorial to the Imperial War Museum in terms of history. They began collecting a 1917 and we began collecting in 1920. We are further delighted that they are having their world war ii gatherings reinstalled by the gallery designs over the World War One Museum so they are very wise, i might say. Margarets research specializes in British Imperial history and the International History of the 19th and 20th centuries and she is written
Saturday American History tv documents america story. On sunday, book tv brings you the latest on nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan two comes from these Television Companies and from more. And from broadband. Buckeye broadband, along with these Television Companies supports hes been to as a public service. Good afternoon. We had finished talking about the battle of ridden last wednesday. Which many people see as the epitome of the tragedy of the First World War however, verdun does not have the distinction, if you want to use that term, of the bloodiest battle of the First World War. Instead, that distinction is at this place called the somme which occurred in the same here 1916 there was no strategic objective at the somme. Its a little river valley in northern france. The only reason the site was selected for this major offensive is, as you can see down here at the bottom, it is where the french lines in the british lines came together. The idea was both armies could at
Good afternoon. We had finished talking the battle of verdun last wednesday, which for many people epitomizes, the tragedy of the First World War. However, verdun does not have the distinction. If you want to use that term as the bloodiest battle of the First World War. Instead, that distinction is at this place called the somme, which occurred in the same year of 1960. There was no strategic objective at the somme. Its a little river valley in northern france. The only reason the site was selected for major offensive is, as you can see down here at the its where the french lines and the british lines came together. And the idea was that both armies could attack together to break through the german lines in the open country and that cavalry charge that the were always talking about. Many of the soldiers who would be fighting at the somme, least in the british army, were those volunteers who had enlisted when the call to arms came in 1914, had seen kitchener appeal to them and for that
Exclusive Interview by Karen Beishuizen Photos credits Jean-Pierre Delagarde, Arnaud Frich and Patrick Cadet Arc de Triomphe on Place de l'Étoile-Charles de Gaulle in Paris is a French landmark and one of the most famous monuments in the world. Napoleon I gave the order to built and King Louis
we have to shining the barrel very done yesterday. which may let people epitomized the tragedy of the first world war however, verdun does not have the distinction, if you want to use that term, of the bloodiest battle of the first world war. instead, that distinction is at this place called the somme which occurred in the same here 1916 there was no strategic objective at the somme. it s a little river valley in northern france. the only reason the site was selected for this major offensive is, as you can see down here at the bottom, it is where the french lines in the british lines came together. the idea was both armies could attack together, break through the german lines into open country and have that cavalry charge that the generals were always talking about. many of the soldiers who would be fighting at the somme at least in the british army, were those the volunteers who had enlisted when they call to arms came in 1914. they had seen morticians or appeal to them. for