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A unique collection of historic recordings within the occasions of 1915, from the first Zeppelin raids to the ultimate failing at Gallipoli. On this selection of real eyewitness accounts, survivors illustrate the sinking of the Lusitania; the writer Compton McKenzie remembers the Gallipoli devastation; and Violet Bonham Carter compensates tribute to Rupert Brooke, who passed away en route to that plan. In another poignant memoir, an in depth colleague recalls the last time of the British nurse Edith Cavell, carried out by the Germans for treason. Women still left at home speak about the dangers they faced taking over men's jobs, especially in munitions; but it's the troops speaking informally and candidly who express the truly harrowing aspect of the battle. Whether helpless during a poison gas strike, or pinned down on the Gallipoli beach locations, their recollections are bleak. For one soldier, purchased to be a part of a firing squad, there is a further horror: the prospect of shooting a comrade for desertion. As the stalemate of the trenches prolonged, hopes for 1916 were focused on a radical new invention: the fish tank.
