True accounts of the First World War / The Great War / WWI as told by the soldiers themselves!
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 7 hours 38 minutes
episode 5: The desert columnist Ion Idriess
Ion Idriess was arguably the greatest adventure novelist Australia has produced, writing 53 books in a 40 year career. As a young man in the iconic Australian Light Horse he kept a diary which he later turned into his most enduring book, "The Desert...
episode 4: Billy Sing Gallipoli sniper
Billy Sing was arguably the greatest sniper ever produced by Australia but as a Chinese Australian he was nearly denied enlistment and after the war almost forgotten. Billy died almost a pauper and alone at the age of 57. Here is his story. The Ballad...
episode 5: A new hope Verdi part 5
When some of our men went to bury the dead after the Battle of Mont St Quentin, when they were lifting up some of the dead bodies, bombs would explode and many of our men were killed this way. He laid these traps for us – placing a bomb under a dead...