Link to World war 1 in colour: 6- Victory and despair documentary
Documentary Description
For the Allies, 1918 proved to be the costliest year of the war. On the
Western Front 2 million British and 3 million French were either
captured, wounded or killed - over a few miles of French and Belgian
mud. On 21 March 1918, General von Ludendorff attacked along a 64-mile
front which was to be the greatest attack yet seen in modern
industrialised warfare. The Germans advanced 20 miles in 14 days, and
von Ludendorff set his sights on Paris and victory. Field Marshall Haig
rallied his British troops to fight to the end. Casualties ran at 350
000 for both sides, and the toll taken on von Ludendorff's troops had
overstretched his war machin