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The Great War: The People's Story: With Olivia Colman, Rosalind March, Alison Steadman, Claire Foy. Through diaries, letters and memoirs, this documentary shows how the Great War transformed the lives of regular British citizens.
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- 2015-02-02
- Documentary, History, War
- 2 min
In the Essex country side Scots parson Andrew Clark, in his memoirs Echoes of the Great War shares Hallie's horror of the Zeppelin bombing raids and concern that so many young men are being sent to the trenches to be slaughtered.
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Hallie, Kate, Reg and Alan. With half his jaw blown away Reg undergoes reconstructive surgery from pioneering doctor Harold Gillies, writing to his mother that he is now uglier than ever. Reg will go through the war, winning a distinguished conduct medal, marrying and surviving until 1943.
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- Paul Copeland
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Through original diaries, letters, and memoirs, this unforgettable documentary tells how the lives of regular British men and women were transformed by the Great War.
The letters of Alan Lloyd, an upper-crust young man from Birmingham who joined the army in the same month he was married, to his new wife from the battlefields of Ypres reveal the shock of a generation of young men coming to terms with a war more terrible than anyone had foreseen.
