Multimedia Collection
Slaughter
(The Great War series)
VHS
60 minutes
D521 .G741 1998 v.2
Episode Four. World War I gave new meaning to death on the battlefield, a breadth and horror summed up in one word: slaughter. Episode Four reveals some of the most appalling battles in human history. The Battle of Verdun became for the French what Gettysburg is for Americans. One million men died there in only nine months. The British offered the same sacrifice at The Somme, where another million died, and at Passchendaele, a graveyard for half a million more. This program chronicles the carnage, and highlights the ingenious ways men kept their sanity behind the lines, using music, theater and trench newsletters to replicate the world they left behind.
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