Somme - A Tale of Two Vals, Part 1: Morval

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The village of Morval is the next domino to fall to the BEF on the Somme in the autumn of 1916. Lesboeufs, Combles, and Gueudecourt follow.

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0:00.0	Verdun was a picnic compared to this.
0:10.3	From the memoir in the Line, 1914 through 1918, by Georg Boucher Mor, the Somme, 1916.
0:44.7	Hey folks, welcome to the Battles of the First World War podcast, episode 25.
0:51.3	Psalm, A Tale of Two Vals, Part 1, Morval.
0:58.5	Thank you, everyone, for the recent reviews and donations.
1:02.0	They are humbly and gratefully received.
1:08.6	Thank you for getting the BFWP to over 50 reviews on iTunes.
1:12.0	I am thrilled, truly.
1:19.6	To Adam, Kurt, Ryan, Josh, Steve, and others,
1:21.6	thank you so very much.
1:24.5	As I've hopefully said here before,
1:33.3	the Battle of Verdun podcast and the BFWP have been so much fun to research, write, and produce. And both podcasts have been great gateways to getting to meet such
1:41.4	interested and interesting listeners such as yourselves.
1:47.0	Thank you again for taking the time to write reviews on iTunes and for making such generous donations.
1:55.0	Thank you.
2:10.5	All right. So here we are after a bit of a delay. So back home, we've started a new school year,
2:23.1	and I now realize that September will be the silly season for me. It's a really busy time. But here we are, back in the line,
2:28.5	back with our tommies, our polloos, and our somkimfer.
2:35.6	We're going to start by just taking a quick look at this episode's opening quote.
2:39.5	Verdun was a picnic compared to this.
2:48.4	That line comes from a gritty memoir written by one Georg Boucher, whose English title is in the line, 1914 to 1918. I do not have much information on Bukha other than
2:57.4	what's found in the memoir. A few minutes long search of Google doesn't even reveal any photos of
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