Episode 1 Baptism
The Western Front is the battlefield that the ANZACS, withdrawn from Gallipoli, entered at the beginning of 1916.
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Through graphics, archive, oral history and travels across the scenes of past battles, Neil Pigot and Dr Peter Pedersen explain where, why and how the ANZACs fought in France and Belgium almost 100 years ago.
The Western Front is the battlefield that the ANZACS, withdrawn from Gallipoli, entered at the beginning of 1916.
Industrial warfare at its most terrifying, the ANZACS find themselves fully acquainted with the texture of war in a series of murderous battles at Pozieres and Flers.
It is 1917 and the ANZACS are involved in the seminal battles of Bullecourt, Ypres, Messines and Menin Road.
We walk where the battalions fought and where the artillery sank in liquid mud in one of the most notorious killing fields of WWI - Passchendaele.
The Germans launched the massive Operation Michael on an 80 km front on March 21st 1918, the greatest offensive of the war.
Monash takes up the challenge of vigorous pursuit of the Germans and in one day advances 10 kms and takes two and a half thousand prisoners - one week later the war is over. (Final)
Through graphics, archive, oral history and travels across the scenes of past battles, Neil Pigot and Dr Peter Pedersen explain where, why and how the ANZACs fought in France and Belgium almost 100 years ago.
