The First World War: Blood in the Trenches (TRIH ep 671, part 1)
1915 · Resource
In this opening episode of the 1915 series, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the Western Front at the start of the second year of the First World War. They begin with John McCrae’s iconic poem "In Flanders Fields" and its context in the Second Battle of Ypres, then broaden the view to life in the trenches through Robert Graves’s memoir "Goodbye to All That" and Ernst Jünger’s "Storm of Steel".
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- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
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