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Kriz
10-25-2003, 11:32 AM
If your quick you still might see some of it, really interesting ! On BBC 2

The Great War
Sat 25 Oct, 4:10 pm - 4:50 pm 40mins

Surely We Have Perished

The seventeenth part of this 26-part classic series turns to the Western Front in 1917. The centrepiece of this gloomy year was the third battle of Ypres - known as the battle of Passchendale. The British fought alone through three and half long months of one of the wettest summers Flanders had ever seen. The battle has aroused much controversy but one truth emerges - the terrible effect the ordeal inflicted upon the human spirit.

Also check this site [/img]http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/