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

History / 4 minutes of reading / April 17, 2021 / By HDclump

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 memories of the war to the frantic beat of the Charleston, rising nationalism propels the world towards a new Apocalypse. November 11, 1918, the world emerges from the most horrific conflict ever known. While world leaders of the […]

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Never Ending War 1918-1926 episode 1 – Vengeance

History / 4 minutes of reading / April 15, 2021 / By HDclump

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 by the fighting and the scourge of the Spanish flu, demobilized soldiers return home to the four corners of a war-shattered world. November 11, 1918, the world emerges from the most horrific conflict ever known. While world leaders

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Gallipoli 1915

History / 2 minutes of reading / March 1, 2021 / By HDclump

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 First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula (Gelibolu in modern Turkey), from 17 February 1915 to 9 January 1916. The Entente powers, Britain, France and Russia, sought to weaken the Ottoman Empire, one of the Central Powers,

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World War 1 – episode 5 – Deliverance

History / 3 minutes of reading / September 3, 2020 / By HDclump

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 disastrous consequences. Apocalypse: World War I is a TV series made up of 5 French documentaries created by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle, and narrated by Mathieu Kassovitz. Originally broadcast in 2014, it chronologically traces the history of

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World War 1 – episode 4 – Rage

History / 2 minutes of reading / September 1, 2020 / By HDclump

World War 1 – episode 4 – Rage: 1917. People have had enough of the war. Behind the scenes, uprisings are brewing, like the one that toppled the Tsar in Russia; on the front soldiers begin to mutiny as they did at Chemin des Dames in France. German submarine attacks in the Atlantic will finally pull the Americans into the war, but they arrive too late to help prevent the carnage of the Battle of Passchendaele. Apocalypse: World War I is a TV series made up of 5 French documentaries created by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle, and

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World War 1 – episode 3 – Hell

History / 4 minutes of reading / August 30, 2020 / By HDclump

World War 1 – episode 3 – Hell: 1916 – The war is raging in Europe and stretches from the trenches in France to the Italian Alps and the Balkans, and beyond to the gates of the Eastern world. The conflict becomes industrial, and millions of shells rain down on the battlefields; Verdun and the Somme are the deadliest battles in this second year of the war. Who can stop this infernal machine? Apocalypse: World War I is a TV series made up of 5 French documentaries created by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle, and narrated by Mathieu

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World War 1 – episode 2 – Fury

History / 3 minutes of reading / August 29, 2020 / By HDclump

World War 1 – episode 2 – Fury: The French army stops the German advance at the battle of the Marne, while the Germans halt the Russians at Tannenberg on the eastern front. In France, the warring parties dig themselves in for 4 years in the trenches. Soldiers from the colonies come lend a hand to their colonizers and the war becomes global. Was the sacrifice of an entire generation worldwide an avoidable or a necessary tragedy? Are the roots of World War II to be found in the devastation of World War I and the Treaty of

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World War 1 – episode 1 – Fury

History / 6 minutes of reading / August 28, 2020 / By HDclump

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 necessary tragedy? Are the roots of World War II to be found in the devastation of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles? This series seeks to address such questions using a global and all-encompassing yet personal and sensitive

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

History / 2 minutes of reading / June 21, 2020 / By HDclump

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 on a conspiracy of sexual deviants in government. And then, dramatically, the tide of battle turned, and exhausted Britons found themselves weeping for joy as the armistice was signed. The nation began to count the cost of four

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Britain’s Great War episode 3 – The Darkest Hour

History / 2 minutes of reading / June 20, 2020 / By HDclump

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? Hoarders are put on trial as newspapers expose how the rich dine out on lobsters in Mayfair. Fear of moral corruption prompts the government to police the nation’s bedrooms. A full-length documentary film of fighting in the trenches breaks

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Britain’s Great War episode 2 – The War Machine

History / 2 minutes of reading / June 19, 2020 / By HDclump

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 to turn the country into a war machine; women fill the factories to make bombs and bullets, men are forced to fight at the front, and conscientious objectors are threatened with the firing squad and striking shipbuilders with jail. Even

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

History / 2 minutes of reading / June 18, 2020 / By HDclump

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 enemy ships and bombed from the air. Paxman meets a 105-year-old eyewitness to the shelling of Hartlepool, who describes how she thought the Germans had landed. Total war has come to Britain. Britain’s Great War episode 1 – War

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