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Never Ending War 1918-1926 episode 2 - Return to Hell

Never Ending War 1918-1926 episode 2 – Return to Hell

Never Ending War 1918-1926 episode 2 – Return to Hell: Filled with veterans, invalids, widows, orphans, exiles, and deportees, nations try to rebuild. But they are still grieving the thousands of unknown soldiers buried in the mud of the battlefields. Ill-tended wounds fester. Populist movements spring up, determined to impose their totalitarian ideology. As western nations try to shake off […]

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Never Ending War 1918-1926 episode 1 - Vengeance

Never Ending War 1918-1926 episode 1 – Vengeance

Never Ending War 1918-1926 episode 1 – Vengeance: November 11, 1918. The First World War is over. Survivors greet the end of hostilities with wild celebrations. But in central Europe, in Germany, Russia, and Hungary, the Communist revolution threatens to sweep all before it. At the Palace of Versailles, the victors draw up the terms of the peace treaty. Traumatized

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Gallipoli 1915

Gallipoli 1915

Gallipoli 1915: The six months of the war that was fought on the Gallipoli peninsula was the culmination of months of British errors.     The transferal of Imperial prejudices to military planning ended up costing thousands of their lives and showed the incompetence of British generals.   Gallipoli 1915   The Gallipoli campaign was a military campaign in the

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World War 1 - episode 5 - Deliverance

World War 1 – episode 5 – Deliverance

World War 1 – episode 5 – Deliverance: All seems lost for the Allies. The Italians are defeated at Caporette, and a Bolshevik Russia pulls out of the war. But the American reinforcements are decisive, and the Allies emerge victorious. The Allies are unable to negotiate an honourable peace agreement, and the Treaty of Versailles, 20 years later, will have

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World War 1 - episode 1 - Fury

World War 1 – episode 1 – Fury

World War 1 – episode 1 – Fury: On June 28th, 1914, the assassination of an obscure Austrian archduke in Sarajevo triggers the most disastrous conflict the world has ever known. Germany becomes an enemy to France, invades Belgium, and in September arrives at the gates of Paris. Was the sacrifice of an entire generation worldwide an avoidable or a

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Britain's Great War episode 4 - At the Eleventh Hour

Britain’s Great War episode 4 – At the Eleventh Hour

Britain’s Great War episode 4 – At the Eleventh Hour: Jeremy Paxman describes how the country came to the very brink of defeat in the last year of the war. Grieving parents held seances to contact their dead sons, surgeons battled to rebuild the faces of the wounded, and a maverick MP tried to pin the blame for the crisis

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Britain's Great War episode 3 - The Darkest Hour

Britain’s Great War episode 3 – The Darkest Hour

Britain’s Great War episode 3 – The Darkest Hour: Jeremy Paxman tells the story of how Britain edged close to defeat in the worst conflict it had ever known. Unearthing the wreck of a German U-boat in the Medway, he describes Germany’s attempt to starve the country into submission – could the Win the War Cookbook save the day?  

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Britain's Great War episode 2 - The War Machine

Britain’s Great War episode 2 – The War Machine

Britain’s Great War episode 2 – The War Machine: In the second part of his landmark series on how the First World War affected the lives of the British people, Jeremy Paxman describes the crisis facing the country as it becomes clear it is fatally unprepared to fight a modern industrial war.     Now the whole population is enlisted

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Britain's Great War episode 1 - War Comes to Britain

Britain’s Great War episode 1 – War Comes to Britain

Britain’s Great War episode 1 – War Comes to Britain: Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the dramatic early stages of the war, from stunned disbelief to the mass recruitment of volunteer soldiers.     Fear of invasion grips the country, Boy Scouts guard bridges, and spies are suspected everywhere. For the first time, British civilians are fired on by

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