Dominic Sandbrook
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Appearances Over Time
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Last episode, we did the Western Front, and you probably thought that sounded bad with all the mud and the lice and stuff.
But at least it's flat.
Yeah, this is much worse.
Much worse.
So basically, in the summer, it is ridiculously hot.
It's like the sun blazing down as you stagger up these kind of limestone hills.
In the winter, it's ridiculously cold.
The wind whipping in off the Adriatic or whatever.
Because it's limestone, you can't really dig proper trenches.
So you can dig a sort of little gully and lie down in this gully.
And when bullets and shells hit the ground, they send up showers of fragments.
Yeah, limestone shards in your eye.
That's not what you want.
Well, these shards would kill people half a mile away.
Yeah, if you're standing with your back to what's going on half a mile away, this shard will hit you in the back of the head and that's the end of you.
Yes.
Yeah.
Don't go through mountains.
No.
So...