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Allah made Mesopotamia - and added flies (The Great War - episode 24)
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Maker: British Broadcasting Corporation
The First World War in the Middle East. British capture Basra and mount an unsuccessful campaign toward Baghdad. Ottomans fail to capture Suez, but check the British advance in Palestine. Britain enco...F00192-03
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---- And we were young (The Great War - episode 26)
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Maker: British Broadcasting Corporation
The First World War's end. Allied offensives in the West continue, United States President Woodrow Wilson offers Fourteen Points as peace terms. Germany's allies capitulate after defeats on other fro...F00192-04
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Armistice and after
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Maker: Grigg, John British Broadcasting Corporation Brown, Malcolm
In November 1918 the victorious Allies were pushing the German army steadily back through occupied France and Belgium while in a railway carriage tucked away in the beautiful Compiegne woods, plenipot...F00193
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On the idle hill of summer (The Great War - episode 1)
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Maker: British Broadcasting Corporation
Profiles of the five European powers engaged at war's start: German Empire, French Third Republic, United Kingdom, Russian Empire, and Austria-Hungary. The Balkan Wars and the assassination of Franz F...F00192-01
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Pilot Officer N E Skinner, wireless operator, 149 Squadron RAF, 28-29 November 1942, describes the action for which Flight Sergeant Rawdon Hume Middleton was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross
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Maker: Skinner, Norman Edward British Broadcasting Corporation
Rawdon 'Ron' Middleton VC was the captain of Stirling Bomber "H" for Harry, 149 Squadron RAF on the night of 28-29 November 1942. The aircraft was en route to bomb the Fiat factory in Turin, Italy whe...S00097
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Please God give us a victory (The Great War - episode 9)
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Maker: British Broadcasting Corporation
The Ottoman Empire joins the war on the side of Central Powers. Armenian Genocide and Gallipoli Campaign.F00192-02
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The Great War - 4 episodes
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Maker: British Broadcasting Corporation
The Great War - 4 episodesF00192