The mess and huge loss of life at paschendale. Told through archive footage contemporary memoirs, commentary, music and poetry, narrated and realised by Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Marius Goring, Cyril Luckham and Emlyn Williams.
1917. The British Army find themselves bearing the brunt of the fighting at Passchendaele. The battlefield is a nightmare panorama of shattered tree stumps, liquid mud and shell craters filled to the brim with filth into which countless soldiers slip and drown. If ever war was truly hell, this is it.—W A Mckibben