The Great War — Season 1, Episode 8: Welcome to the Dirt – The Beginning of Trench Warfare - Week 8
Documentary, War & Politics • 8 min • 13 seasons, 345 episodes • ★ 9.3/10
Episode synopsis
After the advances and retreats during the early weeks of war, the front is coming to a grinding hold after the Battle of the Aisne. The German Army is digging itself in on one side of the river and a new, horrible chapter of World War One begins: trench warfare. To be prepared for this new kind of war, the British Army is recruiting over 400.000 soldiers still believing that the war will be over by Christmas.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Outbreak of WWI - How Europe Spiraled Into the GREAT WAR - Week 1
- E2Germany in Two-Front War and the Schlieffen-Plan - Week 2
- E3To Arms! The Deployment of Troops - Week 3
- E4A New War with Old Generals – Carnage on the Western Front - Week 4
- E5The Rape of Belgium and the Battle of Tannenberg - Week 5
- E6Plans Are Doomed to Fail - The Battle of Galicia - Week 6
- E7Taxi to the Front – The First Battle of the Marne - Week 7
- E9The Russian War Machine and the Race to the Sea - Week 9
- E10Dying in the Mud - Autumn Is Taking Its Toll - Week 10
- E11Back for Christmas? - The Illusion of a Short War - Week 11
- E12Learning From Napoleon – Russia, The Underestimated Enemy - Week 12
- E13A War to End All Wars - Home Front Propaganda - Week 13