Instruments of Death

The Great War: The Somme (1x6)

Uitzenddatum: Mei 06, 2012

"Two years in the making, ten minutes in the destroying" was famously said about the Pals and Chums battalions that went into battle on the first day of the ill-fated Somme campaign on July 1st, 1916. That day alone saw 60, 000 British soldiers become casualties and the Somme has come to epitomise the waste, horror, and futility of the Great War. Karl visits the scene of the battle in France, demonstrates the machine gun, the Lee Enfield rifle, and looks at the terrible effects of poison gas.