Title: Excellent Intro to scope of WW1
Product review: This was an informative and well constructed story of a period that is probably destined to be less and less understood as well as its lessons.The impact of WWI was staggering and its legacy gave context to the rest of the bloody century that followed. The events in Iraq today can even be directly linked to the Great War as well as the continuing unrest in the the rest of the Middle East and the Balkans.One of my few criticisms of the series is that I wish they had more of the many great visuals of the battlefields and locations as they are today while narrating the story of what happened so long ago. Visuals of the thousands of monuments and cemetaries would be dramatic testimony to the horrors of this slaughterhouse. I also wish more explanation was provided on the cost and futility of the battles, primarily Verdun and the English disaster at the Somme... Nonetheless this series is a great achievement...
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