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WW1: Unusual Tales from The Great War.

by Andy Stuart
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About the show

Ordinary people, extraordinary times. The war was not just the Western Front, Gallipoli, mud, blood and barbed wire. It was, as described on the tin; a World War. Japan, The White, Black, Red and Baltic Sea's. Siberia, Africa, China, Chile, Siam and Samoa. People, places and events you'll never have heard of. A new approach to what we thought we knew about. The fighting, politics, disasters, intrigues and social history of the time.