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War.Walks.Series.1.txt
WAR WALKS (SERIES 1)
1415 Agincourt
"In October 1415, starving and riddled with disease, a tiny English army defeated a French force that outnumbered it by 5 to 1. This epic victory has flashes of storybook heroism, set against a darker backdrop of horror and butchery. Today, you can still follow in King Henry V's footsteps on the road that leads to Agincourt." (Opening Narration)
"Miles from home, stranded in a foreign country, marching in the driving rain, outnumbered... it's small wonder that many saw this as more of a dangerous pub crawl than a crusade." (Narration)
1815 Waterloo
Napoleon escapes from exile and once again announces himself Emperor of France. He raises an army and prepares to meet the British & Prussian forces under Wellington at Waterloo.
1914 Mons
"In August 1914, the war to end all wars blazed through Belgium and northern France. Over the next few months, an old world of swords, lances and bugles would be shattered by the machine gun and the howitzer. Most of the troops of the British Expeditionary Force marching to their first battles of the Great War would not survive this new age of industrialized slaughter. In the first few days, they marched across a landscape that previous generations of British soldiers might have recognised." (Opening Narration)
1916 The Somme
In a desperate attempt to break the deadlock in the trenches on the Western Front, the British launch their first major offensive of the war with their volunteer army.
1940 Arras
"In 1940, the German army launched one of history's most dynamic invasions, unleashing a lightning war that simply overwhelmed Allied forces. This is the story of that invasion, and of how a small British force, fighting near the French town of Arras, almost delivered it a stopping blow." (Opening Narration)
1944 Operation Goodwood
"In July 1944, the British Army staged its biggest ever tank attack. Many hoped that it would be the great breakthrough, a massed cavalry charge that would shatter the Germans, and win the battle for Normandy. With a reference to the glories of British horseracing, it was codenamed Operation Goodwood. Landing in Normandy had been relatively easy, breaking out into France beyond it was to prove infinitely more difficult." (Opening Narration)
"By the end of August 1944, the struggle for Normandy was over. A historian should never say never, yet we may hope that it marks the end of a barbarous dynasty of battles, which have ruled Western Europe for more than five centuries, since English archers and French knights fought to the death on the fields of Agincourt." (Closing Narration)
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