The Somme 1916 - From Both Sides of the Wire

PBS America

10:30 AM to 11:45 AM

Sunday 10 November

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Historian Peter Barton concentrates on the second phase of the battle, from the middle of July to the mid-September 1916, reveals how an Allied advance that should have lasted days and weeks, took months and resulted in yet more carnage on the Somme battlefield. He explains that while British tactics were unvarying, that of their German enemy evolved using the changing landscape of the battlefield and led to the emergence of the new German tactic of defence in depth