The city of Arras in northern France witnessed some of the heaviest fighting in the last two years of the war.

It is today perhaps a forgotten battlefield.

What can we find of Arras in a day?

In this episode we return to our battlefields in a day podcasts where we take a particular area

of First World War battlefield and we look at it and see what we can find of it in a single

days travelling around that area.

Now, it's impossible to visit any battlefield in a single day but the point of these

podcasts is to give you an insight as to potentially what there is to see on the ground and give

you a way into that battlefield so you can explore it further and in many cases as there is with

this one there are other podcasts that you can turn

to for further information and further inspiration of what to see beyond the areas that we cover

in this episode so where are we for this battlefield in a day we're in northern france and we're at

the city of arras the battlefields around Aras of 1917 and

1918 are some of the key battlefields of the First World War but yet you could argue that

they are a forgotten battlefield of that war. Sandwich between the more popular locations in terms of

visitors today with Flanders to the north and the

Somme to the south, Arras doesn't get as much of a look in when it should be. It's only an

hour from the Channel port so very easy to get to and there's a huge amount of history to cover here.

Now as we've just said we can't possibly cover the whole Aras battlefield in a day.

And I will say immediately one of the things that we're not going to cover in this episode is Vimy Ridge.

The attack by the Canadian Corps on Vimy Ridge on the 9th of April 1917 was part of the Battle of Arras,

but it is really deserving of its own battlefield in a day

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