Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Beneath Hill 60


This Australian film about tunelling looks good. As I have said before on this blog my Grandfather was a tunneller so I will probably watch this on Youtube for a couple of quid. It says
The extraordinary true story of Oliver Woodward. It's 1916 and Woodward must tear himself from his new young love to go to the mud and carnage of the Western Front. Deep beneath the German lines, Woodward and his secret platoon of Australian tunnelers fight to defend a leaking, labyrinthine tunnel system packed with enough high explosives to change the course of the War

Watch it all here

Monday, 16 January 2012

Article on the War Horse


Which questions some of the issues raised in the film and questions its authenticity. Read here

Sunday, 15 January 2012

Birdsong

Next Sunday the BBC screen their adaptation of this famous novel set in WW1. Should be good. Story about the filming and history of this project here
Novel wiki here