The Great War

Season 2, Episode 27

Episode Title: On the Move but going Nowhere - Optimism is Failing! - Week 49

Air Date: 2015-07-02

Overview:

Two months after landing in Gallipoli the fight has become a trench warfare. In Mesopotamia British troops were losing the optimism, they had felt just a few weeks ago. The change of seasons brought more heat, turning the weather from bearable to excruciating. Heat became a deadly foe. While the German crown prince Wilhelm unsuccessfully tried to break through the Western front in the Ardennes, the Austro-German force managed to drive back the Russians in the East.