The Great War
Season 1, Episode 21: It Was like the End of the World
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The story of the German offensive of March 1918, a desperate gamble to grab victory at a stroke.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
On the Idle Hill of Summer...
Episode 2
For Such a Stupid Reason Too...
Episode 3
We Must Hack Our Way Through
Episode 4
Our Hats We Doff to General Joffre
Episode 5
This Business May Last a Long Time
Episode 6
So Sleep Easy in Your Beds
Episode 7
We Await the Heavenly Manna...
Episode 8
Why Don't You Come and Help?!
Episode 9
Please God Send Us a Victory...
Episode 10
What Are Our Allies Doing?
Episode 11
Hell Cannot Be So Terrible
Episode 12
For Gawd's Sake Don't Send Me
Episode 13
The Devil is Coming...
Episode 14
All This It Is Our Duty to Bear
Episode 15
We Are Betrayed, Sold, Lost
Episode 16
Right Is More Precious Than Peace
Episode 17
Surely We Have Perished
Episode 18
Fat Rodzianko Has Sent Me Some Nonsense
Episode 19
The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Go
Episode 20
Only War, Nothing but War
Episode 21
It Was like the End of the World
Episode 22
Damn Them, Are They Never Coming In?
Episode 23
When Must the End Be?
Episode 24
Allah Made Mesopotamia – and Added Flies
Episode 25
The Iron Thrones Are Falling
Episode 26
...And We Were Young