The Great War documents the first world wide conflict; from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the armistice on 11th November 1918. In between millions perished at Ypres Verdun the Somme and globally. It saw the introduction of the tank the airplane submarine warfare and the use of poison gas; and on the home front the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the first air raids. 1918 began disastrously for the Allies' war effort. Using new Storm Trooper' tactics the Germans launched attacks with devastating results. However the lack of supplies and... the outbreak of Spanish Influenza meant that the German forces were unable to push on. Their collapse was rapid and panic in the German High Command led to an Armistice which began on November 11th 1918. The Great War was finally over. [show more]
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Concluding part of the documentary series looking at the course of the First World War. This volume examines the events of 1918, the last year of the war, when Germany was on the verge of starvation following the successful British naval blockade of the North Sea ports. Gambling everything on a final knockout blow, the German army launched a series of lightning-fast attacks on the Western Front that were initially successful but that lacked the supplies needed to keep them going. When the Allies successfully counter-attacked it saw an end to the static warfare of the previous three years, and a return to the mobile warfare of 1914. By the 11th of November, the Germans were defeated and preparations were in place for the Peace Conference at Versailles.
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