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HISTORIAN | WRITER | PRESENTER
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: DEFENDING EUROPE
BELGIUM 1914
HISTORY HIT
In 2023, I went to Belgium to film a documentary about the First World War that you don't know. We always name Mons as the beginning in Britain, but Belgium and France had been fighting for weeks at that point. This series is all about the invasion and everything that happened before the BEF got there. Scroll down for a photo album. Incidentally, the idea for this series came from an immense amount of research in Wallonia for a battlefield tour that tells this story. Places are now on sale for 2024, so if you want to learn more about the wider context of the war, you can click on the link below for more details:










































































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