Horror In The Mud: What Was It Like To Fight At Ypres? | The Last Voices of World War One | Timeline

This award-winning factual series draws on a unique collection of one hundred interviews with World War One veterans in which the soldiers and their loved ones relive all the heroism and heartbreak of the years from 1914 to 1918. Most of these men had never been interviewed before or since. All the voices are now silent.

The story of 1917 and the terrible battles at Arras and Passchendaele. After surviving the freezing winter of 1916, the British attacked the Germans at Arras – the battle that followed saw the highest daily casualty rate of the war. There was also a dramatic battle in the skies as British airmen fought Germany’s Red Baron for air supremacy. In the summer, the British advanced towards the village of Passchendaele in the most dreadful conditions. Countless numbers drowned in mud in the battle that remains synonymous with the horror of mechanised warfare.