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Great War Stories 1 - Leonard Hart

Great War Stories 1 - Leonard Hart
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Great War Stories 1 - Leonard Hart
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This edition of Great War Stories series revisits “a candidate for the darkest day in New Zealand war history” — 12 October 1917. The Passchendaele disaster in Belgium is explored via a letter smuggled home from 23-year-old private Leonard Hart. The front was a quagmire of mud and blood where, in a catastrophic blunder, Kiwi soldiers were shelled by their own artillery fire before being caught in barbed wire, and slaughtered by enemy machine guns. Hart called it “the most appalling slaughter ...

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2014
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http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/great-war-stories-leonard-hart-2014
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third battle of ypres / passchendaele / western front / world war one / great war / first world war / belgium / blunder / barbed wire / trench / slaughter / artillery / machine gun / disaster / catastrophe / wwi / wwl / nz on air / new zealand on air

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