The First World War
Season 1 • Episode 6: Breaking the Deadlock (1915-1917) • Watch with subtitles
Episode 6: Breaking the Deadlock (1915-1917)
October 25, 2003 • 60 min
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.
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