CSPAN3 Book Discussion On The Great War July 9, 2016
Can you hear me ok . No. Do i turn up the volume here . Get friendlier with the microphone. [laughter] joe now as far as pulling of your chairs, that sounds like unpaid labour to me, so i dont know. Can we turn off the lights . I will just start. What im going to do is run you through the first day of the battle of the somme and talk a little bit about it. This is lord kitchner of Great Britain in the first part of world war i. He was quite prescient. He predicted that the war would go on for years. Many people thought it was going to be over by christmas. You have always heard that line , but...