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Originally Posted by papa_smurf
I have a excellent series on DVD about WWI, called "The Great War", which was originally broadcast in the 70's on the BBC. Of all the episodes, the worst has to be the one on the British dug in around Ypres/Passchendale where there were no trenches to speak of, but a landscape of shell holes filled with water/corpses/etc.
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I remember seeing this series, the horrendous images made there mark on all who watched. There where no imbedded news teams in those day's, the first a person new about tragedy was by telegram.