France surprising WWI sites in France
Just over 100 years ago, the First World War was raging in North Eastern France along the line known as the Western Front. In this video, follow Darley Newman on her discovery of authentic historic sites of battles as an introduction to the WWI series « Travels with Darley » produced for PBS channel. Among the sites of Lorraine Meuse are Vauquois, Douaumont Ossuary and Fort Douaumont near Verdun.
La guerre des mines à Vauquois
À l'occasion du lancement de la nouvelle collection des « Guides illustrés Michelin des champs de bataille (1914-1918) », nous nous sommes rendus sur la butte de Vauquois, l'un des sites les plus extraordinaires de la Grande Guerre.
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In this Globe Trekker Special, Zay Harding travels across Northern France and Belgium, visiting key World War One locations on the Western Front.
Zay’s journey starts in the town of Meaux, 25 miles from Paris, the closest that the German army came to capturing the French capital, and the site today of the newly opened Museum of the Great War.
Moving on to the Aisne region, Zay visits the Confrecourt quarries, remarkable for a rock-cut chapel and many other historic carvings made by French troops who sheltered here, just behind the front lines, between 1914 and 1918.
Zay-Harding-Tries-on-a-100-year-old-gas-maskAt Ypres in Belgium, location of many of the war’s bloodiest battles, and site of the first use in 1915 of the terrible new weapon of poison gas, Zay tries on British and German gas masks from a remarkable private collection.
Back in France, Zay visits Verdun, where the war’s longest all-out battle took place in 1916, at the cost of around 300,000 French and German soldiers’ lives. At the centre of the battlefield, a vast cathedral-like ossuary houses the bones of 130,000 of the soldiers whose bodies have never been identified.
Just a few miles from Verdun, at the hill of Vauquois, the most important battles took place underground. Zay explores a warren of tunnels dug by the French and Germans, in which over 500 massive mines were detonated, obliterating the village that once stood on top of the hill.
Zay-Hareding-in-VerdunneElsewhere, British troops fought alongside a large number of troops from Commonwealth countries. Zay visits Fromelles, where a mass grave of Australian soldiers was recently discovered; they have been reburied in the first Commonwealth War Graves cemetery created since World War Two.
Near Cambrai, Zay is shown one of the First World War’s most remarkable relics, a massive intact tank that was unearthed in recent years in a local field.
Another new weapon that made a big impact in the war was the aeroplane. Zay visits an airshow near Paris to see World War One planes in flight.
One of the most important factors that led to Germany’s defeat was the late entry into the war of the USA. Zay visits the battlefield along the St Quentin canal, where US troops broke through the German front lines in autumn 1918.
Finally, at Mons in Belgium, Zay visits the poignant St Symphorien cemetery, where some of the last of the 10 million soldiers to die in the war are buried, including a Canadian who was killed just two minutes before the ceasefire.
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This video has been created using images we have taken around The Somme WW1 battlefields and memorial sites. Composed to foster a sense of respect, remembrance and reconciliation, we are passionate about this historic area and the stories of the lads who sacrificed so much. For our tomorrow they gave their today.
Please find out more about us at number56.co.uk.
Photographs: David Thomson and Ann Mckeever.
Video concept and production Robert Mckeever.
Chemin des Dames - Carnets 14-18
Le Chemin des Dames fut le lieu de terribles affrontements qui marquèrent à jamais les paysages de l'Aisne.
Le temps de quelques instants, revivez les moments forts de la guerre 14-18 en plongeant au coeur de l'histoire...
« Carnets 14-18 » emmène les visiteurs à la découverte de cinq sites exceptionnels de la Première Guerre mondiale
Une nouvelle application numérique consacrée à la Première Guerre mondiale vous permet désormais de découvrir cinq sites exceptionnels de la Première Guerre mondiale. Dans les « Carnets 14-18 », Guillaume Naylor vous entraîne dans sa quête de l'histoire de ses ancêtres pendant la Première Guerre mondiale.
L'histoire commence lorsque le jeune cinéaste britannique Guillaume Naylor trouve dans son grenier un ancien journal intime à la reliure en cuir. Les pages jaunies contiennent le témoignage poignant de son arrière-grand-père Andrew. Ce jeune brancardier britannique a participé aux grandes offensives de 1914 à 1918 et nous a livré son témoignage sur la Grande Guerre.
L'application vous fait (re)découvrir en 7 à 10 étapes les sites de Lijssenthoek (Westhoek), Fromelles (Nord), Notre-Dame-de-Lorette -- Mont-Saint-Eloi -- Vimy -- Arras (Pas-de-Calais), Beaumont-Hamel (Somme) et le Chemin des Dames (Aisne).
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Projet financé par l'Europe dans le cadre du programme Interreg Mémoire de la Grande Guerre
Barcelone en un coup d’œil
Barcelone compte parmi les destinations week-end les plus populaires en Europe. La capitale de la Catalogne offre en effet tout ce dont on peut rêver : une histoire millénaire, une culture forte, une gastronomie haute en couleur et un sens de la fête unique !
EN UN COUP D’OEIL, six grandes villes format pocket : Rome, New York, Venise, Londres, Barcelone, Paris, Marseille
Graffitis de prisonniers du 18e siècle au château de Brest
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Environ 80 graffitis gravés par des prisonniers anglais au 18e siècle dans les souterrains du château de Brest ont été recensés et décryptés par le Musée de la marine de Brest. Pour exploitation TV, droits réservés, nous contacter sur
14-18, les tunnels de guerre : La Carrière Wellington à Arras
Partez à la découverte de la Carrière Wellington à Arras en compagnie d'Alain Jacques, directeur du Service archéologique de la ville d'Arras. (RMC Découverte)