Anzac Battlefields

After the successes of 1917 the Allies should have been going on the offensive but the Allied Commander in Chief, Field Marshall Haig, simply lacked the manpower.

In this episode we continue the story of what made 1917 the costliest year in terms of human life in our military history.

In this episode we follow the ANZACs through one of the most momentous years of the twentieth century.

In this episode the focus for the ANZACs is on a place forever associated with the Western Front, the Somme.

The continent of Europe is being swept up with nationalism, socialism, anarchism, liberalism and great global empires are governed from its capital cities but it's also a dangerous time, a time of increasing political instability.