Somme - The Grind, Part 1

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

South of the Somme, the French continue their successful attacks on the Germans after the 1st of July. To the north, from the 2nd through the 14th of July, the British begin grinding towards the German second position with local, uncoordinated attacks. The Germans work desperately to recover their defense. Everyone bleeds.

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0:00.0	The outcome of the war depends on second army being victorious on the psalm.
0:09.7	Despite the current enemy superiority in artillery and infantry, we have got to win this battle.
0:16.8	The large areas of ground that we have lost in certain places will be attacked and rested back from the enemy, just as soon as the reinforcements which are on the way arrive.
0:29.3	For the time being, we must hold our current positions without fail and improve on them by means of minor counter-attacks.
0:38.4	I forbid the voluntary relinquishment of positions.
0:44.2	Every commander is responsible for making each man in the army aware about this determination to fight it out.
0:53.1	The enemy must be made
0:55.2	to pick his way forward over corpses.
1:00.4	General Fritz von Belov,
1:03.0	Commander, German Second Army,
1:05.7	the Psalm 3rd July 1916.
1:08.8	The song. 3 July, 1916.
1:27.4	Hey folks, welcome to the battles of the First World War podcast episode 11,
1:31.1	Psalm the Grind, Part 1.
1:36.3	Thanks again for your patience between episodes as I work through my lengthy grad school assignment list.
1:40.3	In the meantime, I continue to hear from listeners,
1:42.9	and I am so grateful for the feedback.
1:45.4	Thanks so much for taking the time out to respond.
1:48.7	It really is the best part of this project.
1:51.6	And I have to share an outstanding comment I received from listener Keith recently on listening to the podcast.
2:00.0	He said, it's like having a super knowledgeable mate
2:04.2	telling you something really interesting at the pub. Isn't that just awesome? So, real quick,
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