Edited by Robert Beach
On this day 97 years ago, the guns of World War 1 finally fell silent as on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the Great War came to a close. The war had a total military and civilian casualty report of close to 38 million people, owing mainly to the sausage grinder that was trench warfare in the bulk of the war. For literal years, the trenches would sit ideally as generals ordered their men into suicidal headline rushes across No Man’s Land. By all accounts, it was one of the cruelest and most nightmarish experiences of “combat” in human history.
who would’ve thought there was a comedy in all that?
Well, it turns out geniuses thought that because in 1989
Richard Curtis and Ben Elton gave us just that with Blackadder Goes Forth, the 4th and final season of the
acclaimed BBC sitcom Blackadder starring Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny, and Stephen
Fry. The season is remembered as
one of the show’s absolute best and is often cited as the perfect vision of
World War 1 in public consciousness.
