Episode 144: Who Won the Battle of the Somme
1917 British patrols walked into Serre without firing a shot. The Germans had gone - withdrawn back to the Hindenburg Line, abandoning ground over which some one million men had been killed and wounde...
14 Syys 50min
Episode 143: The Ancre: The Final Major Battle of the Somme
On 13th of November 1916 the British Army attacked at Beaumont Hamel, Serre and Beaucourt - the ground of the first morning of the Somme. Four and a half months after the catastrophe of the first of J...
7 Syys 57min
Episode 141: Thiepval 1916: Storming the Impossible Ridge
By late September 1916, the British Army stood ready to attempt something it had failed to do on the war's bloodiest day: capture Thiepval. Once a village, now a fortified maze of underground cellars ...
24 Elo 55min
Episode 140: Flers-Courcelette: The Somme's Tactical Turning Point?
In this episode we continue our exploration of the 1916 Battle of the Somme with a focus on a key crucial stage famed for the global debut of a new weapon - the tank - But the battle of Flers-Courcele...
18 Elo 1h
Episode 139: Pozières: Australia's Bloodiest Battle of the Somme
The struggle for Pozieres would become one of the most infamous campaigns of the Battle of the Somme: some 23000 Australians would become casualties over six weeks fighting on a front barely three mil...
10 Elo 57min
Episode 138: Somme's Woodland: Mametz, Trônes, Delville & High Wood
There was no terrain on the Somme that soldiers feared more than woodland - a maze of broken stumps, fallen branches, and hidden barbed wire. In this episode we explore how and why the woods of the So...
3 Elo 57min
Episode 137: Night Attack on the Somme: Bazentin Ridge 1916
Just two weeks after the catastrophe of 1 July 1916, the British Army launched another major assault on the Somme - this time with dramatically different results. Attacking before dawn after silently ...
27 Heinä 56min
