BBC3 个月
WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster?
General Haig, the senior British officer, planned to destroy the German defences with an intense seven day artillery bombardment ... the allied assault. World War One with Dan Snow.
National Review6 年
Lessons from Germany’s ‘Spring Offensive,’ 100 Years Later
German general Erich Ludendorff thought he could win World War I with one final blow ... Germany had refined new rolling artillery barrages. Its dreaded “Stormtroopers” had mastered dispersed ...
BBC8 年
World War One: The global conflict that defined a century
The first shots of World War One are fired in Africa ... the Western Front at the Somme. He thinks an artillery bombardment will silence the German guns and allow his infantry to break through.