Christmas In The Trenches (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
My grateful thoughts are ever with you for victories gained, for hardships endured, and for your unfailing cheeriness. Another Christmas has come round, and we are still at war, but the Empire, confident in you, remains determined to win. May God bless you and protect you. At this Christmastide the Queen and I are thinking more than ever of the sick and wounded among my sailors and soldiers. From our hearts we wish them strength to bear their sufferings, speedy restoration to health, a peaceful Christmas and many happier years to come. The King’s Christmas Message to his Troops, 1916 By the third Christmas of the war the scale of the conflict, especially on the Western Front, had grown again. A strategy of attrition had taken hold and the ability of each nation to sustain the demands of total war was put to the test. This was the year of those defining battles of the war, Verdun and the Somme. The latter operation was one of a number of co-ordinated Allied efforts across the Western, Eastern, Italian and Salonika Fronts in an attempt to greatly weaken the Central Powers by preventing Germany, and to a lesser extent Austria-Hungary, from concentrating their forces.
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