"Somme Reports" Topic
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20 Jun 2016 9:32 a.m. PST
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| KathyQ | 20 Jun 2016 9:22 a.m. PST |
Hi, I just started a new blog called "The Somme Reports". I am transcribing and translating into English the main newspaper articles in July 1916 from the original German newspapers in our archives. I plan to do it for the whole of July 1916. I'm also publishing some of the photos to which we have access.
There is a whole lot of pretty detailed military information contained here.
The blog also contains a tab with a fictitious radio station called "Radio La Boisselle", which is intended to be a German radio station bringing interviews from the front. Although the radio station is fictitious, the interviews I've written are all based on contemporary German newspaper articles as well.
I hope this might be of interest:
thesommereports.blogspot.de |
| wrgmr1 | 20 Jun 2016 12:35 p.m. PST |
Very well done!! I like the interview with Oswald Boelcke.
I would love to see some reports around Vimy Ridge in 1917?
Please post further developments. |
| KathyQ | 20 Jun 2016 12:52 p.m. PST |
Thank you, it's really good to hear someone enjoyed the Oswald Boelcke interview, as I really enjoyed writing it.
I'm not sure I will still be doing it in 1917… my idea was just to write it for the month of July 1916. Doing the translation is quite a lot of work, plus I think my ideas for interviews will run out! Not to mention the photos at my disposal.
But thanks very much for your great feedback! |
| vtsaogames | 21 Jun 2016 9:36 a.m. PST |
Nicely done. Do post a reminder here every now and then. |
| KathyQ | 22 Jun 2016 1:36 p.m. PST |
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| KathyQ | 16 Jul 2016 4:02 a.m. PST |
Hi guys. Just wanted to let you know that I have posted quite a few more newspaper articles in "The Somme Reports". It's a day-to-day reporting of exactly what fighting is going on where during July 1916. I've also published several photos to which I've been given access.
I hope this is of interest.
thesommereports.blogspot.de |
| KathyQ | 07 Aug 2016 10:37 a.m. PST |
Quite a few more posts on my blog "The Somme Reports" and lots of photos.
I'm trying to do every day of July 1916, but each post does take a long time, as I research it in the original newspapers in our archive, then do the transcription and translation. thesommereports.blogspot.com |
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