The Somme 1916 - From Both Sides of the Wire

PBS America

8:15 PM to 9:30 PM

Sunday 10 November

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Peter Barton concludes his examination of the events of the First World War battle from German and British perspectives by looking at the final months of the campaign, showing how a remarkable German tactical revolution that began in the summer continued to frustrate the Allied advance and extended the entire war far beyond expectations. The historian also argues that the Battle of the Somme ended not in the winter of 1916, but in the spring of 1917, and reaches the conclusion that there was no British victory