1 Season
26 Episode
The Great War - Season 1 Episode 4 Our Hats We Doff to General Joffre (1964)
How the British army fought its first battle at the Belgian town of Mons. Despite initial success, the British infantry were sent into retreat after two weeks. Yet as the Germans pressed forward to Paris, apparently invincible, French Commander-in-Chief General Joffre slowly began to build a more solid resistance – which would lead ultimately to Allied victory.
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- Genre : Documentary
- Studio : BBC Two
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- Cast : Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Emlyn Williams, Marius Goring, Cyril Luckham, Sebastian Shaw
