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LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts) Mon Aug 4, 2014, 04:18 PM Aug 2014

First world war: letters and photographs

http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2014/aug/04/first-world-war-your-letters-and-photographs

Unbelievable horror and tragedy; and of course we know too well that the war did not 'end wars'.

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First world war: letters and photographs (Original Post) LeftishBrit Aug 2014 OP

Well worth watching the old 1964 BBC documentary series on the Great War fedsron2us Aug 2014 #1

fedsron2us

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1. Well worth watching the old 1964 BBC documentary series on the Great War

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Mon Aug 4, 2014, 04:52 PM

Aug 2014

Most of the episodes are available in their entirety on Youtube.

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Sadly few of the recent documentaries by the BBC on the subject come close to matching it in scope or quality.

Also worth reading Barbara Tuchmans "Guns Of August" which is one of the best accounts of events leading to the outbreak of the First World War.

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