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The Great War DVD
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Documentary - 96 mins
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Classification - Exempt
Region - 0
Format - PAL
Language - English

Product weight 120g

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On 20th June 1914 the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire at Sarajevo set the stage for the global conflict diplomats and dynasties alike had said would never happen. But the holocaust that followed was all too real. Within weeks of Archduke Ferdinand's death, Europe was mobilising to fight the war to end all wars - a war that would leave nine million dead and change the face of the globe.

The tinder suspicion, smouldering for decades, was fanned into violent life by German ambition: the union of 35 states forged in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war was ready to test its strength, and three decades of covert construction saw them in a position to enter the superpower stage on more than equal terms.

On August 1914, the German s rampaged through neutral Belgium, but lost their momentum: in the Flanders fields, Howitzers carved out a blighted wasteland strewn with the dead of both sides. The air was in its infancy, and cavalry gave way to tanks, but this was a war fought hand-to-hand in trenches: Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele were names that passed into the language as symbolic of the massive waste of life.

Verdun survived a ten-month German bombardment the longest ever in the history of warfare- but at the cost of 700,000 lives overall, while British losses at Somme were the greatest of any wartime army to date. As soldiers faced their third winter, they bitterly recalled the promise made in 1914 that they'd be 'home by Christmas'. They were not told which one...

The slaughter on the battlefields of Europe still had far to go, as the entrenched armies of Germany and the Allies wiped out a whole generation of young men to control a few yards of mud. But the utter exhaustion of men and nations was relieved by the new theatre of conflict in the skies with air supremacy becoming a key factor in the war, and a symbol of a new era of glamorous warfare. Germany's all-out-U-Boat offensive, America's declaration of war and the subsequent battle of the Atlantic proved a turning point in allied fortunes as the development of the tank also helped break the impasse of arms movement back to the trenches. But although any advances caused devastating loss of life and Russia quit after their historic Revolution, gradually the allied initiatives and re-alliance brought a divided Germany to its knees.

On November 11th 1918 the Great War ended, leaving nine million dead. It stands forever as a monument to the futility of war and became the starting point of another, even worse threat to world peace two decades later.

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