Verdun - Back to the Right Bank

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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🗓️ 29 April 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

With the capture of Hill 304 and le Mort Homme on the Left Bank, the Battle of Verdun shifts back to the Right Bank with a disastrous French attempt to retake Fort Douaumont and ensuing German attacks on the lines there.

GEN Petain is promoted in order to have a more ideologically favorable General Robert Nivelle take over French efforts at Verdun. After the attempt to retake Douaumont by the French fails, the Crown Prince and his 5th Army press on with new attacks aimed at breaking through French lines. Fort Vaux is surrounded and cut off by the Germans.

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0:00.0	Today, death is closely bound up with the things of life, more especially because it has
0:09.8	become a thing so ordinary that it no longer causes us to suspend our usual activities,
0:16.9	as it used to do. We eat and drink beside the dead.
0:21.6	We sleep amidst the dying.
0:24.6	We laugh and sing in the company of corpses.
0:29.6	George Duhamel, the new book of martyrs,
0:34.6	Western Front, 1914 through 1916. Welcome to the Battle Over Done podcast episode six, back to the right bank um yeah let me just start off by saying i'm
1:17.6	really sorry for the uh unintended silence uh of the last few weeks um just day-to-day life has
1:27.0	gotten in the way and i'm, uh, not particularly good at communicating, uh, those things.
1:33.3	So it's me.
1:36.3	It's nothing to do with you folks out there.
1:38.3	You guys are great.
1:39.3	Thanks for listening.
1:41.3	Um, thanks for subscribing.
1:43.3	Thanks for signing on to, uh, Battle Overdonepodcast.com.
1:50.5	Thanks for everything.
1:51.3	Thank you very much.
1:55.2	A question has been put to me regarding the inhabitants of the little villages and hamlets of the battlefield,
2:04.4	like in what happened to them.
2:08.2	So I've done a little bit of research here, and this is what I've got.
2:13.2	The villages between Verdun and the front line of February 21st,
2:18.3	1916, found themselves inside the military zone
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