Elegy
The First Day on the Somme
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Narrated by:
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Gordon Griffin
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By:
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Andrew Roberts
About this listen
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