The Deadliest Day of WWI: The Battle of the Somme Explained

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60,000 casualties in a single day. One million by the end. The Battle of the Somme was supposed to break the deadlock of World War I. Instead, it became one of the greatest military disasters in history. ???? Subscribe and join us on this journey around the world → https://bit.ly/WorldView-Documentary

00:00 Introduction: The Deadliest Day Begins
03:16 Remembering the Fallen
05:11 Why the Somme Offensive Was Planned
06:35 The Strategic Mistakes
08:29 Verdun and the Allied Dilemma
09:15 Britain's Volunteer Army
10:52 Preparing for the Offensive
12:37 The Fatal Miscalculation
16:41 The Final Hours Before the Attack
18:40 Into the Machine Guns
22:09 The Collapse of the Assault
24:32 Command Decisions and Disaster
28:30 Five Months of Attrition
32:23 The Human Cost
37:19 Sacrifice Without Victory
42:50 Life in the Mud and Death
45:55 New Weapons on the Battlefield
48:20 The End of the Battle
50:19 Lessons Never Learned
51:10 Legacy of the Somme

July 1, 1916, 7:30am. In the Somme, 500,000 French and British soldiers, on a front stretching 40 km, launch the most senseless attack of an absurd war. Carrying 35 kg on their backs and with orders not to run or drop on the ground, they walk towards death as if on a parade. That morning, 60,000 men fall.

This absurd obstinate pursuit of an error would last 5 months.

With more than a million casualties on both sides, the Battle of the Somme would cost more lives than Verdun in twice as less time. For negligible results.

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THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME
Directed by Jean-François Delassus
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