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I quite like playing in the mud. But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all about mud here on the Western Front.
(See how World War I energized mapmaking at National ... was vastly preferable to the muddy hell of the trenches above. A journalist visiting one of the caverns in 1915 noted that “a dry shelter ...
It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old -- Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw -- happened to be a soldier stationed in the trenches during World War I. One century on ...
BBC One Opening the World War One commemoration season on the BBC ... Fergal follows the children into the trenches, to see how they coped with the reality of war. He explores how, as the ...
"A barrel of whitewash tipped over and it seemed that everything in the world turned white." Stage by stage, from the mud of the trenches ... war memorials, the most poignant of which, perhaps, is ...
The "no man's land" expression dates back to the 1300s when it meant the waste ground between two kingdoms. But in World War I, it was applied to the land between the German and Allied trenches. This ...
Our World War is a gripping factual drama series ... far beyond the familiar images of mud, blood and the trenches. Tommies explores one central theme: all humans are moths to the flame of war.
I quite like playing in the mud. But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all about mud here on the Western Front.