• #61 They just pretended to shoot - Ep 1 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

  • May 7 2025
  • Length: 40 mins
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#61 They just pretended to shoot - Ep 1 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

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  • 1 July 1916. Had British Corps commanders understood machine gun warfare they would not have sent British infantrymen across No Man’s Land unprotected from the German machine gun crews. In fact we explain why the British army need never have been in the position it was in on the Somme, scrabbling about at the bottom of hills, peering up at German fortifications in all the strategic locations. We look at its refusal to take trench warfare seriously even though it had been around for 60 years. (R)

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