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🗓️ 5 May 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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In the Spring of 1917, many French army units mutinied after enduring years of slaughter and appalling conditions during World War One. Much of the French army on the Western Front was affected. Hear first-hand accounts of the mutiny from the BBC archive. Photo: French soldiers attack from their trench during the Verdun battle, eastern France in 1916 (ARCHIVES/AFP/Getty Images)
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1:15.8 | using archive recordings we go back to the spring of 1917 |
1:20.7 | when the French army was rocked by mutiny. The thing that distinguishes me is that the church army didn't mute me is that the |
1:37.8 | church army didn't mute me a long time before 1917. They had had absolutely appalling losses due largely to their own mistakes and to mistaken theories. |
1:51.0 | General Edward Louis Spears was in 1917 the head of the British military mission to the French government. |
1:58.0 | At the beginning of the war in August 1914, I myself have seen the French Army attacking German positions and machine guns with |
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