In The Line Of Fire - Famous Battles Of World War One DVD

This box set comprises three documentaries of important battles during WWI using 3D animated maps footage of the battlefields today and interviews with leading military historians from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The Somme: July 1st 1916 was the blackest day in the history of the British Army when a combination of bad planning and German bullets sent Kitchener's Army to their doom. An army that had taken two years to make took only a day to destroy. Cambrai:At Cambrai in November 1917 a tank force of over three hundred tanks punched a hole four miles... deep into the German lines in the space of a single morning. But the Germans counter-attcked and the result of the battle was a virtual draw with the front lines shifting slightly. However the battle of Cambrai marked a major turning point in the course of the war as the era of trench warfare was coming to an end and technology was beginning to reign supreme on the battlefields of Europe. Gallipoli:The story of the Allied campaign in the Dardanelles that was supposed to knock Turkey out of World War One. Winston Chruchill convinced Allied High Command that an attack at Gallipoli would also open up vital supply lines to Russia and establish a thrid front against Austria-Hungary. The Australian and New Zealand troops who fought and died druing the ten month Gallipoli campaign that saw an estimated 36 000 Commonwealth troops lose their lives before the allied withdrawal in January 1916. [show more]

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