The Somme

On the morning of June 1st 1916, 120,000 British soldiers, most of them volunteers, prepared to fight the greatest battle of the First World War.  This is the story of the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army told through the letters and diaries of those who were there.  Superbly dramatised and produced documentary with archive footage, great battlefield graphics and moving narration.  At 7.30am on 1 July 1916, British soldiers mounted an attack on German army positions in northern France: the biggest battle mounted by Britain since Waterloo. "The Big Push" was meant to break the stalemate of trench warfare on the Western Front, offer relief to the French at Verdun, and get the war moving again.
However, the attack plan, a compromise reached by British commander-in-chief Douglas Haig and his army commander Henry Rawlinson, was fatally flawed. As 60,000 British soldiers went "over the top" they were met by a devastating barrage of German machine guns and artillery that should by then have been destroyed by the preliminary British barrage. By the end of the day over 19,240 men were dead, with another 35,493 wounded. A byword for the futility of war, the Somme marked the end of chivalrous notions of combat, and loudly heralded the mechanised slaughter of modern warfare.
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