A team of historians bring to life the reality of life on the Western Front.
EPISODE 1
Baptism
ANZAC troops dig into trench warfare along the Western Front in early 1916.
EPISODE 2
Sacrifice
The ANZACs learn the horrors of industrialized warfare, including gas, tanks and machine guns.
EPISODE 3
Resolve
It is 1917 and the ANZACS are involved in the seminal battles of Bullecourt, Ypres, Messines and Menin Road.
EPISODE 4
Cataclysm
We walk where the battalions fought and where the artillery sank in liquid mud in one of the most notorious killing fields of WWI - Passchendaele.
EPISODE 5
Spirit
The Anzac's feel the brunt of Germany's Operation Michael, the biggest offensive of World War I.
EPISODE 6
Victory
Monash takes up the challenge of vigorous pursuit of the Germans and in one day advances 10 kilometres and takes two and a half thousand prisoners - one week later the war is over.
Neil Pigot
Peter Pedersen