The Great War — Season 1, Episode 9: Please God Send Us a Victory...

Episode synopsis

By Christmas 1914, the bloody impasse in the trench lines on the Western Front saw Lord Kitchener looking elsewhere for victory. In an attempt to sieze control of strategic Turkey, a British naval expedition advanced on the Dardanelles, and allied troops landed at Gallipoli with the aim of taking Constantinople. However, events did not go according to plan and, after 37 weeks, soldiers were evacuated from the beaches.

About The Great War

A milestone 26-part history of the First World War, conceived to mark the 50th anniversary of its outbreak.

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• E1On the Idle Hill of Summer...
• E2For Such a Stupid Reason Too...
• E3We Must Hack Our Way Through
• E4Our Hats We Doff to General Joffre
• E5This Business May Last a Long Time
• E6So Sleep Easy in Your Beds
• E7We Await the Heavenly Manna...
• E8Why Don't You Come and Help?!
• E10What Are Our Allies Doing?
• E11Hell Cannot Be So Terrible
• E12For Gawd's Sake Don't Send Me
• E13The Devil is Coming...