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The First World War
Season 1 · Episode 6
Breaking the Deadlock (1915-1917)
6.01h 0mOctober 25, 2003
Attrition, "lions led by donkeys", the slaughter only ceasing for a brief truce one Christmas - old, mistaken views of the war on the Western Front. In fact there was constant tactical evolutions; hundreds of generals died in action; some men adopted a system of "Live and Let Live", with countless informal local truces.
Episodes
- Episode 1To Arms (1914)
- Episode 2Under the Eagle (1914-1915)
- Episode 3Global War (1914-1916)
- Episode 4Jihad (1914-1916)
- Episode 5Shackled to a Corpse (1914-1916)
- Episode 6Breaking the Deadlock (1915-1917)
- Episode 7Blockade (1916-1917)
- Episode 8Revolution (1917)
- Episode 9Germany's Last Gamble (1918)
- Episode 10War Without End (1918- )