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Elegy

The First Day on the Somme

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Elegy

By: Andrew Roberts
Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
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On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained but at a terrible cost.

In killing grounds whose names are indelibly imprinted on 20th-century memory, German machine guns - manned by troops who had sat out the storm of shellfire in deep dugouts - inflicted terrible losses on the British infantry.

©2015 Andrew Roberts (P)2015 W F Howes Ltd
Military Wars & Conflicts World World War I War

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