The Western Front Diaries: Winning World War I (DVD, 2008) Region4

The Western Front Diaries: Winning World War I (DVD, 2008) Region4.

As screened on Foxtel's THE HISTORY

CHANNEL - here is the moving

dramatization of the landmark book

written by historian Dr. Jonathan King to

commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the

end of World War I, The Western Front Diaries.

Now direct from the bloody battlefields he presents

this exciting but little-known story of how the

tough-fighting Australians helped win World War I.

The ANZACs' Western Front campaign had a

greater impact than Gallipoli in almost every

aspect: five times more soldiers served and were killed there,

more than five times as many battles took place and it was there

that an astounding 52 Victoria Crosses were awarded to Australians.

The Diggers serving on the Western Front also helped win the war, but it was at an almost unfathomable cost.

Using brutally honest and extraordinary eyewitness

accounts, this dramatic story of Winning World War comes straight from soldiers who actually fought in those bloody trenches on the notorious Western Front.

Their private letters and personal diaries report

the action, battle after battle, as the 'never say die'

Australians fight their way to victory against impossible

odds. Their reports are illustrated with breath-

taking black and white archival footage, priceless old photographs and heart-wrenching tales from descendants on the actual battlefields of the

Somme in France, who are telling

these long awaited truths for the first

time. Truth may be the first casualty

of war but with the acclaimed actor

Jack Thompson now narrating this

fast-moving story, the truth - with no

secrets held back - can at last be told.

It doesn't get more honest,

raw or breathtaking than this.

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