Home By Christmas Ww1

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Home by christmas ww1. The bbc radio stoke programme it will all be over by christmas 1972 began with examples of predictions of the war ending by christmas in 1916 and 1917 iwm sound archive record 999. Belgium and france and war in the east. Macdonagh 1935 macdonagh michael. Bill haine joined up early on.

Gaylene preston s home by christmas is a love story based on the wartime marriage of her parents ed and tui. He remembered the mood in britain when he did so. Military analysts led people to believe world war i would be over by christmas 1914 but new tactics and weapons proved that estimate wrong. By january 1915 world war i was five months old and the major european powers were entrenched in increasingly savage warfare.

The british public and the soldiers fighting in the mud of flanders were given the impression by those in charge that the germans fighting possibly less than100 metres away were blood lusting psychopaths bent on destroying all in their way. In this podcast some of those who experienced the first months of war explain just how wrong that prediction was. The exhibit highlights the first five months of the war through specific topics or case studies including. Christmas truce in the trenches 1914 then the war went on and on.

One of the most popular sayings of 1914 was that the war would be over by christmas. Many myths and legends surround world war one and christmas especially the first christmas of the war in december 1914. Germany mobilizes and germany s rush to war invasion. With a loving and compassionate eye her lifelong curiosity and special imagination she reveals the two sides of a traumatic separation brought about by world war ii.

In london during the great war.