Our World War. Season 1, Episode 2, Pals / producer, Susan Horth ; director, Ben Chanan.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Horth, Susan, producer.

Chanan, Ben, director.

British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Army.

Great Britain.

Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916.

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--France.

World War, 1914-1918.

Friendship.

Genre:

Television melodramas.

Historical television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (58 minutes)

Place of Publication:

London : British Broadcasting Corporation, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

1916, and Britain's armed forces are decimated. Across the country, friends join up to fight together, in new battalions known as 'Pals'. Paddy Kennedy, a warehouse clerk from Manchester, joins the Manchester Pals Battalion alongside his friends Henry, Andy and Jim. They soon discover that the whole of their neighborhood has joined up, including a nearby factory foreman, now their sergeant, Mitchell, and their friend Lizzie, who has become a volunteer nurse. These pals are set to become part of the largest offensive ever mounted by the British Army, the Battle of the Somme. But after a successful first day, they are ordered to seize control of Trones Wood, a thickly forested copse riddled with enemy soldiers and impossible to navigate. Through all this, they survive shellfire and ambush, evade capture by the Germans and encounter the mysterious Private William Hunt, whose fate will become forever entwined with the life of Paddy Kennedy. Paddy's journey leads to the deadliest mission of all - the execution by firing squad of one of his pals. How will Paddy survive becoming a soldier?

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed January 03, 2017).

OCLC:

971292873