The Somme 1916 - From Both Sides of the Wire - Season 1

The Somme 1916 - From Both Sides of the Wire - Season 1

Season 1

Historian Peter Barton explores the events of the Battle of the Somme.

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DatesJuli 18, 2016 - Aug. 1, 2016

Episodes

First Day - Erster Tag
Season 1Episode 160 min

First Day - Erster Tag

Historian Peter Barton explores the events leading up to and on the notoriously bloody first day of the Offensive.

Walking the battlefield, he explains the failures that led to over twenty thousand British deaths. Barton argues that to get a better understanding of events, you should not only confront what the British did badly but what their enemy did better.

The Germans were able to skilfully use the landscape of the Somme to maximize casualties amongst their enemy. And based on research in German archives, Barton shows just how much they knew in advance about Allied plans through captured documents and interrogations of captured British prisoners and deserters who were persistently 'spilling the beans'.

Juli 18, 2016
Defence in Depth - Verteidigung in Der Tiefe
Season 1Episode 260 min

Defence in Depth - Verteidigung in Der Tiefe

Historian Peter Barton concentrates on the second phase of the battle, from the middle of July to the middle of September 1916.

Barton reveals how an Allied advance on objectives which should have lasted days and weeks took months and resulted in yet more carnage on the Somme battlefield.

Whilst British tactics were unvarying, that of their German enemy evolved using the changing landscape of the battlefield. The slowness of the Allied advance during this period Barton explains by the emergence of new German tactics - defence in depth.

Juli 25, 2016
End Game - End Spiel
Season 1Episode 360 min

End Game - End Spiel

Historian Peter Barton concludes his history of the battle in the final months of the campaign. He shows how a remarkable German tactical revolution begun in the summer of 1916 continued throughout this period to frustrate the Allied advance. This would have profound implications, tragically extending the entire First World War far beyond Allied expectations. Barton also presents a new narrative which argues that the battle of the Somme ended not in the winter of 1916, but in the spring of 1917. And he reaches the conclusion that there was no British victory.

Aug. 1, 2016

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