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#63 The generals never studied how to attack trenches - Ep 3 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

#63 The generals never studied how to attack trenches - Ep 3 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

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 The British Army wanted to throw men against machines. Its generals had not thought about how to cross 100-200 yards of open space with wire entanglements. They had been offered plenty of designs for armoured tractors with caterpillar tracks but had ignored them. It was Churchill, head of the Royal Navy, who eventually funded the development of the first ‘tank’. But they arrived late at the Somme and were so badly deployed they couldn’t save lives. And that wasn’t the worst of the problems the British army had created for itself. (R)

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