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World War One: The Cultural Front Series 3 Episodes

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  1. Dada and Defiance

    3/3 1916. Dada is born and Jerusalem is sung. Gorky defends Jewish life in print.

  2. The Tank and the Home Fires

    2/3 1916: Tanks capture the public imagination, but the comforts of home are shattered by war.

  3. Bleeding France

    1/3 1916. The year of Verdun and the Somme. Could artists and writers convey this new hell?