so few comments ? I thought it was really good

It`s damn frustrating,so many interesting ideas floating around:a WW1 film about the Somme from the German perspective.Interesting as to what the Germans apparently thought about this battle but most historians this side look apon it as a disaster- a disaster not helped by the fact that the British soldiers were explicitly informed NOT to run and probably couldn`t if they wanted to anyway as they were weighed down by a ridiculously heavy kit.This battle taught the lesson,subsequently forgotten, that no matter how heavy the pre-bombardment, a sufficient defending force ,well dug in and crucially given time to recover, would inflict heavy casualties.I subscribe to the view that although the Germans suffered horribly ,it was a British disaster rather than a German one.Verdun is largely looked apon as a French disaster but it was a battle of attrition where the original German intention was to bleed the French army dry.In the event both armies bled each other in equal amounts, although unknown to the Germans, this precipated a collapse in French morale which manifested itself after the Chemin Des Dames offensive.British morale didn`t collapse after the Somme but the terrible casualty rate, in just one day`s fighting, is something that thankfully wouldn`t/couldn`t be repeated otherwise the war would have been lost.