CSPAN3 Lectures In History America World War I December 28, 2022
we have to shining the barrel very done yesterday. which may let people epitomized the tragedy of the first world war however, verdun does not have the distinction, if you want to use that term, of the bloodiest battle of the first world war. instead, that distinction is at this place called the somme which occurred in the same here 1916 there was no strategic objective at the somme. it's a little river valley in northern france. the only reason the site was selected for this major offensive is, as you can see down here at the bottom, it is where the french lines in the british lines...
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