Episodes

  • GBaW 14
    Apr 20 2011

    With the tour complete the author summarises the war effort he has witnessed and catalogs the industrial achievements of Great Britain at War.

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    13 mins
  • GBaW 13
    Apr 20 2011

    The tour moves to Ypres and the total devastation is a shock to behold. The town is gone, but in the midst of this death and destruction, glory and honour have been earned.

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    12 mins
  • GBaW 12
    Apr 19 2011

    The stop is a front line aerodrome for a chat with the flying men. Here we learn of some of their daring deeds and watch new aircraft designs arriving to aid the war effort.

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    18 mins
  • GBaW 11
    Apr 19 2011

    The tour visits some quiet battlefields and the author has his stomach turned as he walks the cratered landscape of the unburied dead.

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    11 mins
  • GBaW 10
    Apr 19 2011

    The tour moves on to Arras and finds the town a shattered wreck of it former glory.  At first it appears a wasteland but then the author finds there are still people there afterall...

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    12 mins
  • GBaW 09
    Apr 19 2011

    Moving back from the front line a visit to a training camp includes a trial by poisonous gas and a close encounter with greek fire.

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    15 mins
  • GBaW 08
    Apr 19 2011

    In a rickerty car running along shell cratered roads the tour passes lines of wounded as it movs up to an artillery battery and finds the guns firing.

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    19 mins
  • GBaW 07
    Apr 19 2011

    The tour crosses the channel and enters the land of battle, France. Here the author enters a hospital and finds the well run nursing doing great work. Sadly the visit to the ward of soldiers suffering shell shock reveals the darker side of the war.

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    11 mins