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The Great War - 1918
Although World War I raged nearly a century ago, American Experience gives you a fresh and highly personal perspective on it. Examine the world?s bloodiest war through the moving recollect?
Item Number: 13560
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 1 hour
- Number of Discs:
- 1
Although World War I raged
nearly a century ago, American
Experience gives you a fresh and
highly personal perspective on it.
Examine the world?s bloodiest war
through the moving recollections
of participants who witnessed the
horrifying dawn of mechanized
warfare. Poison gas, machine guns
and long-range explosives brought
staggering human casualties to the
world in the push against
Germany. Now see how the
results erased the romantic
notions of nineteenth-century
battle forever.
En route to the Argonne Forest in
September, 1918, Captain Harry S. Truman wrote
home, ?It was march all night and part of the day,
grab a few hours sleep and march some more.?
