CSPAN2 Lectures In History America World War I October 8, 2022
The bloodiest battle of the First World War. Instead, that distinction is at this place called the somme, which occurred in the same year of 1960. There was no strategic objective at the somme. Its a little river valley in northern france. The only reason the site was selected for major offensive is, as you can see down here at the its where the french lines and the british lines came together. And the idea was that both armies could attack together to break through the german lines in the open country and that cavalry charge that the were always talking about. Many of the soldiers who would b...