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The Outbreak of WWI - How Europe Spiraled Into the GREAT WAR - Week 1 Germany in Two-Front War and the Schlieffen-Plan - Week 2 To Arms! The Deployment of Troops - Week 3 A New War with Old Generals – Carnage on the Western Front - Week 4 The Rape of Belgium and the Battle of Tannenberg - Week 5 Plans Are Doomed to Fail - The Battle of Galicia - Week 6 Taxi to the Front – The First Battle of the Marne - Week 7 Welcome to the Dirt – The Beginning of Trench Warfare - Week 8 The Russian War Machine and the Race to the Sea - Week 9 Dying in the Mud - Autumn Is Taking Its Toll - Week 10 Back for Christmas? - The Illusion of a Short War - Week 11 Learning From Napoleon – Russia, The Underestimated Enemy - Week 12 A War to End All Wars - Home Front Propaganda - Week 13 Fresh Meat - The Search For New Recruits - Week 14 The World at War - The Ottoman Empire Enters the Stage - Week 15 The Defensive War on the Western Front - Week 16 The Enemy Within - The German Army's Power Play - Week 17 Iron, Steel and Oil - The Fight for Resources - Week 18 Mission Accomplished? - The Austro-Hungarian Empire Conquers Belgrade - Week 19 The Battle at the Falkland Islands - The Death of Maximilian von Spee - Week 20 The Raid On Scarborough - A Failed Attempt at Intimidation - Week 21 The First Battle of Champagne - Dying in Caucasus Snow - Week 22

The Great War - Season 1 Episode 8 Welcome to the Dirt – The Beginning of Trench Warfare - Week 8

2 votes, average 95 out of 10 - 48 minutes

After the advances and retreats during the early weeks of war, the front is coming to a grinding hold after the Battle of the Aisne. The German Army is digging itself in on one side of the river and a new, horrible chapter of World War One begins: trench warfare. To be prepared for this new kind of war, the British Army is recruiting over 400.000 soldiers still believing that the war will be over by Christmas.

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