14 Diaries of the Great War Part 8: The Tipping Point
The Tipping Point - In the spring of 1918 the Germans begin an ultimate offensive. With the support of America, the Allies hit hard back. The war is tilting.
The father of Yves is deported to Germany as a forced laborer. His family remains behind yearning. Ernst Junger and his men are completely exhausted, they now only care about themselves.
Charles Montague, meanwhile too old for active service, leads American photographers to German prisoners. Marina will spend her 18th birthday in the Prison of the Red Army. Elfriede almost has no memories of a life without war. In October 1918 she heard of a possible German defeat for the first time. A few days later on November 11th it's finally reality: the Great War is over.
104 years after its outbreak, this series lets viewers experience WWI solely through the eyes of those who lived it.
History tells us 'what was'. It tells us when things happened. When kings and cultures lived and died, armies were raised and vanquished, and mighty empires rose and fell. History, as we know it from books, is often boring, for it fails to answer one very simple question: What was it like? When war broke out in Europe in July 1914, people on all sides believed it would be over by Christmas. Little could they know just how wrong they were. A seemingly petty conflict in Bosnia soon snowballed into the first truly global conflict.
This was a new kind of war, fought with means and techniques never seen before. By November 1918, ten million people had died, and the political map of the world had been re-drawn. People's minds and attitudes had changed forever, and the Modern Age had begun. Caught up in the middle of this chaos were millions of ordinary men, women and children. Their very lives changed in ways they could never have imagined. This is their story.
14 Diaries of the Great War retells the story of the greatest war mankind had ever seen in a unique way - it lets viewers experience World War I solely through the eyes of those who lived it. From over 1,000 very dramatic stories of the war, left behind in diaries, letters, postcards and telegrams, 14 of the most vivid and emotional have been chosen, deriving from characters all over the globe.
The father of Yves is deported to Germany as a forced laborer. His family remains behind yearning. Ernst Junger and his men are completely exhausted, they now only care about themselves.
Charles Montague, meanwhile too old for active service, leads American photographers to German prisoners. Marina will spend her 18th birthday in the Prison of the Red Army. Elfriede almost has no memories of a life without war. In October 1918 she heard of a possible German defeat for the first time. A few days later on November 11th it's finally reality: the Great War is over.
14 Diaries of the Great War Part 8
104 years after its outbreak, this series lets viewers experience WWI solely through the eyes of those who lived it.
History tells us 'what was'. It tells us when things happened. When kings and cultures lived and died, armies were raised and vanquished, and mighty empires rose and fell. History, as we know it from books, is often boring, for it fails to answer one very simple question: What was it like? When war broke out in Europe in July 1914, people on all sides believed it would be over by Christmas. Little could they know just how wrong they were. A seemingly petty conflict in Bosnia soon snowballed into the first truly global conflict.
This was a new kind of war, fought with means and techniques never seen before. By November 1918, ten million people had died, and the political map of the world had been re-drawn. People's minds and attitudes had changed forever, and the Modern Age had begun. Caught up in the middle of this chaos were millions of ordinary men, women and children. Their very lives changed in ways they could never have imagined. This is their story.
14 Diaries of the Great War retells the story of the greatest war mankind had ever seen in a unique way - it lets viewers experience World War I solely through the eyes of those who lived it. From over 1,000 very dramatic stories of the war, left behind in diaries, letters, postcards and telegrams, 14 of the most vivid and emotional have been chosen, deriving from characters all over the globe.
