Season 2
26 episodes
31 min. per episode
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A young adventurer uncovers forgotten histories, battling danger and discovery while shaping his destiny across the globe.
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He was a soldier's soldier, decorated for bravery by the British government and respected by the men in his battalion. But war had taken its toll on Siegfried Sassoon, and he felt a deep resentment against his country's military campaign. Sassoon returned from the trenches of hell in World War I to fight another battle in the halls of government back home. His resentment took the form of poetry: searing indictments that ran counter to popular opinion. This is the story of how one man's poetry and his protest against World War I shined a light of truth on the subject of war forever framed that conflict in the memory of his country.
Robert Graves described himself a poet and wrote more than 150 books. His most memorable works emerged when the world around him was falling apart. He envisioned a mythical female muse that he called the White Goddess
Rather than surrender to the Nazis, de Gaulle organized the Free French forces. Forced to the sidelines of Allied Command decisions, he defended French colonies. Despite this, he was excluded from Normandy operations.
In July 1916, the devastating Battle of the Somme was a turning point in warfare, demarking the modern combat arena in horrific carnage. Unseasoned and poorly trained British soldiers vastly overestimated the tenacity of German forces.
Marshal Pétain was the popular hero of World War I. But when the Nazis invaded France in World War II, octogenarian Pétain once again rose to power and fully embraced Fascism. As leader of Vichy France, Pétain made himself a hated villain.
A series of documentaries covering a wealth of historical epochs touched upon in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992).