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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

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