RTÉ Documentaries

The Somme 1916 - From Both Sides of the Wire (2018x17)

Fecha de emisión: May 21, 2018

Peter Barton examines the events of the First World War battle from German and British perspectives, revealing a story that contradicts much of the received wisdom. He begins by exploring the circumstances leading up to the start of the offensive and revealing the failures that resulted in more than 20,000 British deaths on the first day, and looks at how the Germans were able to use the landscape of the Somme to maximise enemy casualties.