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The Great War

Season 1 · Episode 2

For Such a Stupid Reason Too...

10.040mJune 6, 1964

The assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914 led to a breakdown in international diplomacy that ultimately led to war.

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Episodes

Episode 1On the Idle Hill of Summer...
Episode 2For Such a Stupid Reason Too...
Episode 3We Must Hack Our Way Through
Episode 4Our Hats We Doff to General Joffre
Episode 5This Business May Last a Long Time
Episode 6So Sleep Easy in Your Beds
Episode 7We Await the Heavenly Manna...
Episode 8Why Don't You Come and Help?!
Episode 9Please God Send Us a Victory...
Episode 10What Are Our Allies Doing?
Episode 11Hell Cannot Be So Terrible
Episode 12For Gawd's Sake Don't Send Me
Episode 13The Devil is Coming...
Episode 14All This It Is Our Duty to Bear
Episode 15We Are Betrayed, Sold, Lost
Episode 16Right Is More Precious Than Peace
Episode 17Surely We Have Perished
Episode 18Fat Rodzianko Has Sent Me Some Nonsense
Episode 19The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Go
Episode 20Only War, Nothing but War
Episode 21It Was like the End of the World
Episode 22Damn Them, Are They Never Coming In?
Episode 23When Must the End Be?
Episode 24Allah Made Mesopotamia – and Added Flies
Episode 25The Iron Thrones Are Falling
Episode 26...And We Were Young