For King & Empire
Season 1 Episode 2 - Slaughter and Sacrifice
Norm Christie takes us through the trenches from which the battle of the Somme was launched on July 1, 1916.
Audio Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Starring:Norm ChristieR.H. Thomson
Directed by:Peter Williamson
Season 1
S01:E01 - Baptism of Fire
Norm Christie takes us into the heroic city of Ypres, filled with refugees in 1915, and out onto the killing fields where, German forces initiated the century of “total war”.
S01:E02 - Slaughter and Sacrifice
Norm Christie takes us through the trenches from which the battle of the Somme was launched on July 1, 1916.
S01:E03 - Storming the Ridge
Norm Christie takes us to the immense French and German military cemeteries that reflect the desperate fighting for Notre Dame de Lorette and Vimy Ridges in 1915.
S01:E04 - Slaughter in the Mud
Norm Christie takes us back to the city of Ypres, where the Canadians fought their first big battle in 1915. In 1917, Ypres is a ruin.
S01:E05 - Masters of War
Norm takes us onto the Amiens battlefield where Canadian troops spearheaded the attack on August 8, 1918, that became “the black day of the German Army”.
S01:E06 - Shadows of the Great War
Norm Christie shows us what is left of the Western Front–the cemeteries, monuments and devastated fields rich in bodies, shrapnel, and live shells left by the Great War.
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