Somme - A Bloody High Wood, Part 2

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The battle for High Wood continues through August and into September 1916. High Wood becomes a hell within the hell of the Somme battlefield.

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0:00.0	We are actually fighting on the psalm against the English.
0:08.0	You can no longer call it war. It is mere murder.
0:12.0	We are at the hottest place of the present battle in furrow wood.
0:18.0	All my previous experiences in this war, the slaughter at Ipr and the battle in the gravel
0:24.2	pit at Uloosh, are the purest child's play compared with this massacre, and that is much too
0:31.7	mild a description. I hardly think they will bring us into the fight again now, for we are in a very bad way.
0:42.2	An unknown German soldier.
0:45.0	Kuniglich, Baerisha, Zip Center Infantry Regiment Orf, Highwood, the Somme, 1916.
1:17.8	Hey, folks, welcome to the Battle's of the First World War podcast episode 19, Psalm, A Bloody High Wood, Part 2.
1:25.4	Thank you so much, everyone, for the recent reviews and donations to the podcasts.
1:30.9	Thank you so much for taking the time to both donate and to review.
1:37.1	Every donation is a generous one, and they all go towards server maintenance and the purchasing of new researching materials like books and articles.
1:42.6	Every review shows the time you folks out there have taken to write some very kind words
1:48.7	about the podcasts and how much you have been enjoying them.
1:53.6	It really means the world to me.
1:55.7	Thank you.
1:58.4	Admin note.
2:00.4	I've got to make a correction regarding episode 18 and my description of the location of the German switchline trench running through high wood.
2:12.8	So, I said the switchline ran through the northwest corner of the wood, but in reality, it ran
2:21.5	through the northeast corner.
2:24.6	As anyone in my tank platoon from way back in the day could tell you, land navigation skills
2:32.8	were always a needs improvement area for me.
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