How the British army fought its first battle at the Belgian town of Mons. Despite initial success, the British infantry were sent into retreat after two weeks. Yet as the Germans pressed forward to Paris, apparently invincible, French Commander-in-Chief General Joffre slowly began to build a more solid resistance – which would lead ultimately to Allied victory.
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Season 1
On the Idle Hill of Summer... For Such a Stupid Reason Too... We Must Hack Our Way Through Our Hats We Doff to General Joffre This Business May Last a Long Time So Sleep Easy in Your Beds We Await the Heavenly Manna... Why Don't You Come and Help?! Please God Send Us a Victory... What Are Our Allies Doing? Hell Cannot Be So Terrible For Gawd's Sake Don't Send Me The Devil is Coming... All This It Is Our Duty to Bear We Are Betrayed, Sold, Lost Right Is More Precious Than Peace Surely We Have Perished Fat Rodzianko Has Sent Me Some Nonsense The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Go Only War, Nothing but War It Was like the End of the World Damn Them, Are They Never Coming In? When Must the End Be? Allah Made Mesopotamia – and Added Flies The Iron Thrones Are Falling ...And We Were Young
On the Idle Hill of Summer... For Such a Stupid Reason Too... We Must Hack Our Way Through Our Hats We Doff to General Joffre This Business May Last a Long Time So Sleep Easy in Your Beds We Await the Heavenly Manna... Why Don't You Come and Help?! Please God Send Us a Victory... What Are Our Allies Doing? Hell Cannot Be So Terrible For Gawd's Sake Don't Send Me The Devil is Coming... All This It Is Our Duty to Bear We Are Betrayed, Sold, Lost Right Is More Precious Than Peace Surely We Have Perished Fat Rodzianko Has Sent Me Some Nonsense The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Go Only War, Nothing but War It Was like the End of the World Damn Them, Are They Never Coming In? When Must the End Be? Allah Made Mesopotamia – and Added Flies The Iron Thrones Are Falling ...And We Were Young