Somme - Towards the Next Big Thing

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In early September the French and British Armies continuously kept up the pressure on the Germans. These attacks were part of and preparation for the next big strike on the Somme.

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0:00.0	The battle will be continued without stopping.
0:09.0	General Emil Foyol, French Sixth Army commanding the Psalm 1916. Hey folks, welcome to the battles of the First World War podcast episode 22, Psalm towards the next big thing.
0:45.8	Let's start off with a hearty shout out to our newest patron on Patreon, listener Cameron.
0:54.9	Thank you so much for signing up.
0:57.3	If you too would like to join Cameron and become a patron as well,
1:01.9	please see the link provided in the episode description.
1:05.5	And that's patreon.com slash battles of the first World War podcast. Check us out if you're interested. Thank you.
1:16.3	As always, thank you for the recent reviews. These help the podcast immensely by making us more and
1:24.1	more visible in the iTunes podcast sphere.
1:28.7	To directly answer reviewer Big Lake 20s request of doing the battles of Ipr,
1:36.1	one, two, and three, the answer is yes, of course we will cover those.
1:43.9	Unfortunately, I can't really say when why is best answered with
1:50.5	because i'm super slow as of the writing and publication of this episode we are upon the centenary
1:59.5	of the beginning of the third battle of Iper, commonly
2:03.9	and a little misleadingly known as Passchendale. I am beginning to see the end of the psalm,
2:12.3	but there's still a ways to go. So yes, we will most definitely get to it and when we do, I'd like to cover Iper in
2:21.3	its entirety. Also, Big Lake 20, thanks for your review and I hope to see Ips someday soon.
2:32.8	Back to the psalm schlacht.
2:36.2	We've been grinding through for the past several episodes, from the French continuing to push
2:42.6	in their sector to the horrors of Delville Wood, Posier, Highwood, and Guillemont.
2:50.5	These events weren't taking place randomly or from lost sight of objectives.
2:56.9	They were taking place to help the British and French reach the needed jump-off lines in order to hit hard at the Germans again.
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