Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age

The War to End All Wars: The Experience of the Trenches (1x29)

Udgivelsesdato: Apr 06, 1998

The statesmen and peoples who went to war in August 1914 thought that it would all be over by Christmas. Instead, unimaginable killing and destruction dragged on for years—the 19th century died in the trenches. The military course of the war and its shocking character are described, with special attention to two gigantic battles of 1916: the Somme and Verdun.