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
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 reason were known kitcheners army. Not only were men induced to come, as you
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 reason were known kitcheners army. Not only were men induced to come, as you saw those those posters of women wanting to induce to join up. But the
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
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