The Great War: 1914-1918

Beginning with the origins of the conflict.

As the war began, experts thought that technical advances in weaponry would bring about a quick victory, but the reality was different as armies resorted to trench warfare on the Western Front.

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The battles of Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele were three of the worst of the war, yet soldiers sought to keep their sanity with music, sport and theatre.

By the start of 1917, the strain of war was so great that half the French army mutinied, while in Russia the whole regime was overthrown.