The First World War: The People's Story

PBS America (Freeview)

1:00 PM to 2:05 PM

Sunday 22 December

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Veterans of the First World War recall their experiences, with archive footage used to illustrate events, beginning with the first two years of the war in 1914 and '15. The men - aged 90 and more when interviewed - reveal how they survived and kept their spirits up in the trenches with death all around them, while there is a look at how families at home faced up to the absence and loss of husbands, fathers, sweethearts and son