Can you hear me ok . No. Do i turn up the volume here . Get friendlier with the microphone. [laughter] joe now as far as pulling of your chairs, that sounds like unpaid labour to me, so i dont know. Can we turn off the lights . I will just start. What im going to do is run you through the first day of the battle of the somme and talk a little bit about it. This is lord kitchner of Great Britain in the first part of world war i. He was quite prescient. He predicted that the war would go on for years. Many people thought it was going to be over by christmas. You have always heard that line , but he heard of what it would manpower so heof built up a volunteer army. He started this recruitment process. The british professional army was small by confidential standards, about 100,000 people. 100,000 troops and mostly in , 1914 the british army was pretty much spent. In the territorial space to the 1915, National Guard the british National Guard took over and volunteers started to come into p
Volunteers started to come into play also. By 1916 during the battle of the somme, the army was mostly volunteers with remnants of the professional and territorial divisions. This is the general, the chief architect of the battle of the somme. Here he is Walking Around his chateau. Every morning he would take a four minute walk around the chateau, precisely timed. Interesting man vilified by a lot of historians and then a rehabilitated by a lot of historians. My opinion of him is rather low but i try to be neutral about how i show him. There he is riding a horse in the front. Everyday he would also take a ride if he could with the 17th lancers which is a unit that he used to command because the general was in calgary officer and he believed in the calgary three at the battle of the somme was to relieve pressure on the french fighting against the germans. His idea was after a massive bombardment basically an unprecedented bombardment. The british infantry would take the german trenches
This is a little under an hour. Thank you for coming out. Can you hear me okay . No. Do i turn up the volume here or elsewhere . Get friendlier with the mic. How is that . That friendlier . As far as pulling up your chair. It sounds like unpaid labor to me. So i dont know. Like unpa can weid turn off the light oron turn down the lights . Re ill just start. What im going to do is run yout through the first day of the go battle and talk a bit about it the first day of the battle of the somme and talk a little bit about it. This is the word kitchner of Great Britain in the first part of world war i. He was quite prescient. He predicted that no more would go on for years. Many people thought it was going to be over bye christmas. You have always heard that line but he heard of what it would require is a lot of manpower so he built up a volunteer army. He started this recruitment process. The british professional army was small by confidential standards about 100,000 people, 100,000 troops
She shares that essay in the book. Tell me about finding a publisher. The publisher found me so Johnny Temple is the incredible rock star, literally rock star publisher of caution books. He is a friend and we are both progressive activists in the publishing world that i had done a book a couple of years ago about this project that was working on about abortion and did something actually on that bug. He called and said i want to do a book that captures this incredible trajectory. I think you should do speeches by politicians. Can you think of anyone who edit it . And i said i would. I got Madeline Keown and to be involved as well to add her gravitas and it was really just a pleasure to do and its a very like i say a happy story. Thank you for your time. That sounds like unpaid labour to me, so i dont know. Can we turn off the lights were turned down the lights . I will just start what im going to do is run you through the first day of the battle of the somme and talk a little bit about
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