The city of Eap in Flanders Fields was the bastion of the British and Commonwealth forces during the Great War.

Four years of conflict changed the landscape forever and left behind hundreds of thousands of dead from all nations.

What can we see of epe in a day?

As spring brings the landscape of the Western Fronts alive once more, it's possible to travel

to the old battlefields, the old front line once again.

And so to inspire some interest in that, this episode is the first of a new series of episodes where we'll look at individual battlefields along the Western Fronts and try to visit them in a day.

Now obviously we can't do justice to the momentous episodes of the Great War in just a single day on any battlefield.

But what we can do is give a taste of what the war was like in that area, an insight into what the men of both sides went through and what there is to find on the battlefields today.

As always, it will prompt you to go further and that's the very purpose of visiting these

battlefields like this. And many go to the Western Front and don't know where to start. So hopefully

these battlefields in a day episodes will give you some inspiration to get out there

to get on the ground and begin your own journey along the old front line while a war is raging in

europe once more and our perspective of visiting these battlefields might be slightly different

because of that what do we get by taking a trip

to the Western Front to any battlefield of the Great War? What it does, I think, is take our

reading and understanding of the subject one step further. You could read an entire library of

books on the First World War, but in many respects until you've seen the ground,

until you've understood just how low the ridges in Flanders were, or the rolling downland of

the Somme affected the outcome of the battles, or how dense the woodland was, or what the

heights of the Meurs around Verdun were like, or the rocky mountains in the Vogue where the fighting took place

or stood on the beaches at Gallipoli and walked the dry nullas there, until you've done all that,

in many respects, it's a one-dimensional view of what the conflict was about.

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