The First World War: The War to End All Wars

- Season 1

(2023)

The full industrial might of nation states backed millions of fighting men in a war which saw casualty figures on a colossal scale; the slaughter in the trenches, a process which destroyed almost an entire generation of young men.

In the summer of 1914 the Nations of Europe had entered into a conflict of unforeseen and unprecedented savagery. From the Balkans storm center the winds of war had blown outward engulfing nation after nation.

The Battle of Mons, August 1914, was the first battle fought by the British Expeditionary Force in World War One.

The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 was an attempt by the Allies to open a new front against the Ottoman Empire, allied with Germany and Austria, and to secure the passage of the Dardanelles and thereby access to Russia.

Fought between July and November 1916, the Battle of the Somme is possibly the most famous of all World War One battles and certainly one of the largest with over million men killed or wounded by its conclusion.

The Battle of Verdun from February to November 1916 began with a German offensive against the French defenses around the town of Verdun.

The battle of Cambrai in late 1917 saw the first large scale deployment of tanks as a tactical weapon.

Kaiserschlacht or Kaiser's Battle, the German spring offensive in 1918, was the last significant German offensive of World War One. It saw the first major deployment of Stormtrooper units on the Western Front.