The First World War


Germany's Last Gamble (E09)

(episode)
UK, 2003, 50 min

Based on:

Hew Strachan (book)

Composer:

Orlando Gough

Cast:

Jonathan Lewis (narrator), Hermann Göring (a.f.), Paul von Hindenburg (a.f.), John J. Pershing (a.f.)
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In March 1918 Germany launched a massive offensive on the Western Front – her bid to win the war before the Americans arrived. The master was General Erich Ludendorff – a genius but unstable. Within days the British 5th Army was in retreat, Paris was under shell-fire. (Prime Video)