Episode 50 - 08 August 1918: The Breaking of the German Army

At 4:20 a.m. on August 8, 1918, the silence east of Amiens shattered. No warning bombardment. No days of shellfire. Just fog, fire, tanks, and thousands of Allied soldiers moving forward behind one of the most carefully coordinated assaults of the First World War.In this milestone 50th episode of The Rum Ration Podcast, hosts Rejoy Chatterjee and Colin Robinson dive into the opening day of the Battle of Amiens—the moment that German commander Erich Ludendorff would forever label “the Black Day of the German Army.”Listeners are taken into the chaos of that August morning, where the Canadian Corps—including the 14th Battalion, the fighting lineage of The Royal Montreal Regiment—helped smash through German defenses and begin the Hundred Days Offensive.This is not just the story of a battle. It’s the story of the day the Western Front finally began to break.