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WWI: The Last Tommies

Rating:3.8 of 5Total number of episodes:3
Last broadcast:07/11/2018 at 21:00
November 2018
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Series 1: 07/11/2018

Expired 4.0 12 x
The Fight to the End tells the story of the terrible battles of 1917 and 1918, and how Britain and her allies turned a looming defeat into victory. As recruitment levels fell, conscription was introduced. One of the conscripts was Harry Patch - here interviewed for the first time - who went on to live to the age of 111, an...
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Series 1: 06/11/2018

Expired 4.0 22 x
The Battle of the Somme is an immersive account of one of the most iconic and tragic battles in history, told through its last survivors and through families and communities at home who lost loved ones. When the troops went over the top in June 1916, they imagined this was the attack that would end the war. Instead, it tur...
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Series 1: 05/11/2018

Expired 3.0 25 x
Vivid and heartbreaking stories told by the last Tommies - filmed in their 90s and 100s - remembering life and death in World War I, illustrated with powerful archive. This episode tells the story of the first years of war in 1914 and 1915, culminating in the Battle of Loos, when the Pals Battalions, who had enthusiastical...
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