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Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Great War episode 93. This week I would like to thank all of the podcast Patreon supporters who have chosen to support the show over on

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This is episode 5 of our story of the Battle of the Somme.

Last week saw the beginning of the attack and we also looked at the ill-fated attack of the you will continue to work our way south as we discuss the attacks of the 8th and 10th

core of the 4th Army. These attacks against very strong German positions around

Theefel and Beaumont Hamel would be quite disappointing.

And the reasons for that disappointment will probably seem familiar to longtime listeners.

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