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these fields
were the bloody arena

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for the most terrible
conflict in human history

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In 1913, an alien
invasion shook the world

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and hurled it into an
unimaginable future.

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The next four years
of ferocious combat

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has forever marked this ground
as the land of the vanished.

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We were fighting monsters.

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There was life
beyond our planet.

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It went completely
against everything

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I'd been raised to believe.

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I'm standing feet away
from this huge dome,

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the cockpit sticking out of the
earth like a half-closed eye.

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No one had fought a war
remotely like this one before.

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An entire
generation of young men,

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all of them vanished.

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I'll never stop hating
them for what they did.

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2013 is the hundredth

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anniversary of the outbreak
of the Great Martian War -

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a conflict unequalled
in devastation

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and often mired in controversy.

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But the lost legacy
of a forgotten hero,

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unearthed only last year

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might just ignite the
biggest controversy of all.

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My great grandfather,

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he died about nine years
before I was even born.

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He was Anishinaabe man,
traditional man,

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and he kept to himself,

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so I never really knew
much about him at all.

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Lafonde's great grandfather Gus

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was a First Nations
Canadian soldier.

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His youth was spent fighting
on the Martian front line.

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His final years were spent
in this remote cabin.

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The things that
are inside of that cabin

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have been there for years

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It changes everything -

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everything we know
about the war,

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and everything that we
know about the enemy.

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What Kim found in
her great grandfather's cabin

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may shed light on a dark warning

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from our alien invaders.

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And for this man,

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it's both a blessing
and a curse.

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Historian Lawrence Hart
has spent his entire career

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attempting to decipher
the alien texts

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recovered after the war

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the so called 'Martian code'.

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He believes Gus Lafonde'
obsessive study

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has cracked the code

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and finally given a voice
to the alien invaders.

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I have been intrigued

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by the mysteries of this
impenetrable alien text.

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And though a lot of
people have tried,

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no one has been able to break
what they call the Martian code.

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For Hart,
the revelations hidden

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within the Martian texts

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cast the invasion in
a shocking new light.

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They confirm a threat
he has long suspected.

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On its 100th anniversary

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we expose the truth behind
the Great Martian War.

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We finished it.

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We killed the bastards..

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But I don't know.

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When I close my eyes...

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I don't feel it's all over.

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Here is where it all began -

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London's Herne Hill observatory.

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Through this telescope,

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on the night of the
24th of June 1913,

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astronomers observe a
mysterious speck of light

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close to the planet
Mars and moving fast...

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towards earth.

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Two days later,
the world would change forever.

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An enormous shockwave,

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emanating from a
single blast point,

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is felt all across Europe

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War historian and broadcaster

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Duncan Mitchell Myers
takes up the story.

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It soon became apparent

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where the shock had been
most strongly felt...

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in the Bohemian Forest.

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This forest at
the centre of the blast

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is deep within
the German Empire.

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Relations between Germany
and its European neighbours

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have been tense for many years,

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and with the observations from
Herne Hill going unreported,

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everyone jumps to a very
dangerous conclusion.

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This looks like the beginning

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of the rush to war
that everybody's been expecting.

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The Kaiser angrily
denies German responsibility.

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He orders his troops
into the Bohemian Forest

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to uncover the truth.

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The men enter the
area on July the 3rd.

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They never return.

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No one in Europe
knew what happened

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to the expeditionary party,

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and no one knew that
in the heart of Europe,

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this was created -

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an eight mile wide
impact crater.

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No one knew until the
morning of July the 9th,

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when a telegram was received

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in all the capital
cities of the world,

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and it was from Berlin.

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His Majesty the Emperor,

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in the name of God,
the Fatherland,

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and the German people,

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begs the assistance of
his brother nations.

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Germany is under attack by
assailants not of this earth.

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A ten year old,

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to find out that
monsters are for real,

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that they come from
somewhere up there,

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or somewhere in the dark...

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You don't feel safe ever again.

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Most of all was the fear
that more would come for us,

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and do here what
they did in Germany.

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We woke up with that
thought everyday.

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Within days,

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there is carnage across Germany.

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It was totally unstoppable.

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With frightening ease,

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one by one the
great cities fell.

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The name that most
endures is Munich,

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which was the first to be hit.

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Munich was home to
14 year old Arnold Töckelt.

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He and his brother Bernie were
among the first civilians

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to endure the full horror
of an alien attack.

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Daylight came,

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I got out of the rubble,

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and there was no dead bodies,
nothing to see.

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And my brother was nowhere.

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Vanished.

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Within four days,

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civil society in Germany
has essentially collapsed

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The alien invasion shows no
sign at all of slowing down,

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and people in other
European countries

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realized that they have to act,
and fast.

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With Germany ravaged,

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and her entire army missing -
presumed dead -

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Britain helps forge
a grand alliance

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between the surviving
nations of Europe.

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On July the 20th,
speaking for all the Allies,

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King George the Fifth
declares the world is at war,

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and calls for all able-bodied
men of planet Earth to enlist.

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The call is answered -

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Britain and its
colonies lead the way.

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Among the recruits from afar
is bombardier Hughie Logan,

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of Calgary, Canada.

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For Hughie,
going to war will mean

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parting from his new bride,
Clara.

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We started going together

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when we were 15.

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We got married at 18 -

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the same year they came.

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And I shipped out for Europe.

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The troops shipped from Halifax.

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I made her two promises
before I left.

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First promise -

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two girls, one boy.

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That's what we were gonna have.

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And the second promise wa

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I'd write to her as
often as I could.

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So that's what I did.

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For Hughie and the thousands

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of volunteers like him,

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there is hope and determination.

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But for those left behind
it's a different story.

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He was my dad,

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and I didn't want him to go.

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I was hanging onto
his leg 'cause I knew,

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I absolutely knew,

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that the monster would
come for him, too.

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They had to pull me
off him in the end,

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one finger at a time.

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And now I can't even
remember his face.

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It's a month since impact

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and humanity is mobilizing.

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Little is known of the origins
of the alien invaders,

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but as the speck of light
that signalled their approach

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was first seen beside
the red planet,

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the enemy gets a name...

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The Great War against th
"Martians" has begun.

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It is four weeks since
impact in the Bohemian Forest.

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An alien invasion force has
annihilated much of Germany

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and is pushing across Europe.

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Halting the Martian advance
is the Allies' immediate goal.

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In London,

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50 feet below the
Palace of Westminster,

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a command centre is established

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and plans swiftly laid.

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The chief curator of
the Martian War Museum

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and these preserved war rooms

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is Alexandra Banham.

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As the alien force

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crossed the German border
into France,

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it was right here
in front of this map

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that the joint chiefs of staff

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ordered the tiny British
Expeditionary Force

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and the French
standing army forwards

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to hold the line here
along the western banks

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of the Moselle River.

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Among those awaiting
the terror of the alien attack

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is a young English
stretcher bearer -

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William Payne.

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His diary contains some of
the earliest description

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from the Martian battlefront.

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It is a complete,
personal account

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of the entire war,

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and it is undoubtedly one of
the most important artifacts

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in this museum's possession.

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You can see that the dat
is August the 2nd, 1913.

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Dawn.

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Through the mist,
towering shapes emerged

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not creatures, but machines.

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I whispered to God for mercy,

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and in response,
our artillery exploded to life.

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Within moments of this
opening Allied barrage,

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the alien army responds.

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We cannot hold them.

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Our lines are torn to pieces.

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Our guns are useless.

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Hell was not beneath us

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it has fallen from the sky.

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We must fall back.

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The soldiers give these giant

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fighting machines a name

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Herons.

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There were two component
to these machines

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that became immediately
apparent to the Allies -

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Firstly, they were entirely
protected by an energy shield.

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This was the first
introduction that we had

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had to the many uses of
dark energy particles.

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The second was a slow firing,

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immensely destructive
energy cannon.

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It was used to
destroy defences,

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to cause chaos,

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but mainly to flush men
out into open view.

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Each Heron is
shrouded in a toxic cloud

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Combat troops are soon
issued with gas masks,

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but civilians must make d

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with crude,
home-made versions.

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For frontline soldiers
like Jock Donnelly,

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protection came at a price.

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Well, you can't see a thing.

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And you can't talk to anybody -

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it's just you.

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You're sitting
alongside 50 other guys,

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but you're alone.

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There's nobody.

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At the feet
of the lumbering Herons

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are battalions of
smaller machines -

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their attack dogs.

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They rampage the battlefield
by the thousands.

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Fast and merciless
killing machines,

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these bring death
at close quarters.

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This was their
infantry division,

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and they were quickly
named the Iron Spiders.

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And they were wielding
a weapon from here -

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you can see it reconstructed -

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that was like nothing
that had ever been seen.

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These were the
"ribbons of death".

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They snare us, entwine us

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stab us, skewer us,
strangle us,

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tear us in half still alive.

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The worst were the night raids.

264
00:18:00,092 --> 00:18:05,091
The Spiders would sneak across
the no man's land

265
00:18:05,092 --> 00:18:08,291
and hover over us,

266
00:18:08,292 --> 00:18:11,792
and the ribbons would descend.

267
00:18:15,126 --> 00:18:16,858
I knew we couldn't move,

268
00:18:16,859 --> 00:18:20,858
because any movement
would be certain death

269
00:18:20,859 --> 00:18:23,359
when the Spiders are around.

270
00:18:30,526 --> 00:18:33,091
They were ripping
the Allies to pieces,

271
00:18:33,092 --> 00:18:36,592
whole cavalry battalions
were tossed aside.

272
00:18:41,592 --> 00:18:46,258
The very front itself was in
a chaotic fighting retreat

273
00:18:46,259 --> 00:18:48,759
right across France.

274
00:18:53,092 --> 00:18:54,925
On the 19th of August,

275
00:18:54,926 --> 00:18:57,458
General Sir John French
wires Downing Street,

276
00:18:57,459 --> 00:19:01,459
and he tells them that the
alien force cannot be stopped,

277
00:19:02,459 --> 00:19:04,025
that Paris will fall,

278
00:19:04,026 --> 00:19:06,058
the continent is lost,

279
00:19:06,059 --> 00:19:07,858
and the only thing
Britain can do

280
00:19:07,859 --> 00:19:10,859
is prepare for
imminent invasion.

281
00:19:19,492 --> 00:19:21,058
That same day,

282
00:19:21,059 --> 00:19:24,558
Europe is given one last hope.

283
00:19:24,559 --> 00:19:26,325
An unexpected messenger

284
00:19:26,326 --> 00:19:29,125
arrives at
Allied Field Headquarters

285
00:19:29,126 --> 00:19:31,591
His news may be
the saving of Paris

286
00:19:31,592 --> 00:19:34,991
and perhaps the entire war.

287
00:19:34,992 --> 00:19:37,258
He is a corporal in the
army believed destroyed

288
00:19:37,259 --> 00:19:40,625
in the first week of the war.

289
00:19:40,626 --> 00:19:42,525
His communique states,

290
00:19:42,526 --> 00:19:44,458
"Though the
Fatherland has fallen,

291
00:19:44,459 --> 00:19:46,291
the German Army has not,

292
00:19:46,292 --> 00:19:48,625
and we are on our way".

293
00:19:48,626 --> 00:19:53,158
It is signed by
Count Paul von Hindenburg

294
00:19:53,159 --> 00:19:55,991
So he issues an
absolutely unprecedented

295
00:19:55,992 --> 00:19:59,258
Mobilization Order directed
at every living German,

296
00:19:59,259 --> 00:20:00,758
telling them that they
must make their way

297
00:20:00,759 --> 00:20:03,491
as fast as possible -
"blitzartig" -

298
00:20:03,492 --> 00:20:05,391
lightning fast
is the word he uses -

299
00:20:05,392 --> 00:20:07,925
through Belgium,
south towards Paris,

300
00:20:07,926 --> 00:20:10,458
to sweep in and reinforce

301
00:20:10,459 --> 00:20:15,092
the increasingly
desperate Allied line.

302
00:20:17,826 --> 00:20:22,025
Germans head for
France in huge numbers.

303
00:20:22,026 --> 00:20:24,391
Among them is young
Arnold Tockelt,

304
00:20:24,392 --> 00:20:27,892
who had survived Munich
and now craved revenge.

305
00:20:31,192 --> 00:20:33,425
And we marched and marched

306
00:20:33,426 --> 00:20:36,492
until we finally reached
the Belgium border

307
00:20:37,659 --> 00:20:41,159
and we received an embrace from
there I will never forget.

308
00:20:43,159 --> 00:20:47,082
They gave us flowers...

309
00:20:56,059 --> 00:20:58,591
They looked after the wounded,

310
00:20:58,592 --> 00:21:00,658
and fed the hungry,

311
00:21:00,659 --> 00:21:04,158
and the Belgian men joined us

312
00:21:04,159 --> 00:21:07,159
and became our brothers.

313
00:21:11,092 --> 00:21:12,591
Over the next few days,

314
00:21:12,592 --> 00:21:16,958
wave after wave of German
troops join the Allied line,

315
00:21:16,959 --> 00:21:18,891
and by August 29th,

316
00:21:18,892 --> 00:21:22,158
the alien army
had come to a standstill

317
00:21:22,159 --> 00:21:25,025
and a communique
arrives upstairs

318
00:21:25,026 --> 00:21:28,526
stating that the
attack had been halted.

319
00:21:32,092 --> 00:21:33,858
The Germans had saved the day

320
00:21:33,859 --> 00:21:37,225
with the now famous
"Hindenburg manoeuvre".

321
00:21:37,226 --> 00:21:39,825
A plan originally
conceived years before

322
00:21:39,826 --> 00:21:42,025
by Count von Schlieffen

323
00:21:42,026 --> 00:21:46,458
to conquer France,
rather than save it!

324
00:21:46,459 --> 00:21:48,391
It's one of the most
audacious manoeuvres

325
00:21:48,392 --> 00:21:49,992
in the whole of
military history.

326
00:21:54,559 --> 00:21:57,025
Now that the
alien advance is stopped

327
00:21:57,026 --> 00:22:00,992
the Allies regroup and prepare
to go on the offensive.

328
00:22:03,059 --> 00:22:06,058
The offensive actions
of the autumn of 1913

329
00:22:06,059 --> 00:22:09,059
were aggressive,
large-scale artillery barrages,

330
00:22:13,059 --> 00:22:15,592
followed by
mass infantry assaults -

331
00:22:24,426 --> 00:22:29,091
what the Allies were trying to
do was outflank the alien army,

332
00:22:29,092 --> 00:22:34,058
and of course press home
the advantage in numbers

333
00:22:34,059 --> 00:22:36,558
There was a real belief here
that, at this point,

334
00:22:36,559 --> 00:22:38,559
victory could be
achieved by Christmas.

335
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,859
Waves of new
recruits are arriving daily.

336
00:22:50,459 --> 00:22:53,225
Among them is a minister'
daughter from South Wales

337
00:22:53,226 --> 00:22:57,625
Nerys Vaughn.

338
00:22:57,626 --> 00:23:00,891
Her post-war account of
life at the Martian Front

339
00:23:00,892 --> 00:23:02,391
"Anthem for the Vanished,

340
00:23:02,392 --> 00:23:04,559
would come to embody the
fate of a generation.

341
00:23:05,559 --> 00:23:07,425
<i>How did it</i>
<i>feel, heading for war?</i>

342
00:23:07,426 --> 00:23:10,758
Well, it wasn't a
single emotion -

343
00:23:10,759 --> 00:23:14,191
it was the most
tantalizing cocktail -

344
00:23:14,192 --> 00:23:16,925
excitement, fear, hope,

345
00:23:16,926 --> 00:23:20,191
dread, longing, calm,

346
00:23:20,192 --> 00:23:24,692
but together they created the
most powerful feeling of all.

347
00:23:25,892 --> 00:23:29,392
For the first time,
I felt my life had meaning.

348
00:23:34,559 --> 00:23:36,291
Another young volunteer

349
00:23:36,292 --> 00:23:38,559
was also
disembarking in France.

350
00:23:41,326 --> 00:23:43,658
He was corporal Gus Lafonde,

351
00:23:43,659 --> 00:23:46,658
of the Canadian
Expeditionary Force,

352
00:23:46,659 --> 00:23:50,891
a First Nations soldier proud
of his Anishinaabe heritage

353
00:23:50,892 --> 00:23:53,991
and eager to serve.

354
00:23:53,992 --> 00:23:58,292
Gus's war would turn boy to man.

355
00:24:06,059 --> 00:24:08,991
He drew on legends from
his warrior ancestors

356
00:24:08,992 --> 00:24:12,492
to try and comprehend
the unimaginable horrors he saw.

357
00:24:15,859 --> 00:24:18,658
This takes him deep
into enemy territory -

358
00:24:18,659 --> 00:24:22,159
uncovering dark secrets
of the Martians.

359
00:24:27,059 --> 00:24:30,291
A lone voice
lost in the horror.

360
00:24:30,292 --> 00:24:32,292
Yeah, exactly,
that's exactly who he was

361
00:24:37,792 --> 00:24:39,291
Over two months,

362
00:24:39,292 --> 00:24:42,591
hundreds of thousands
of enlisted troops arrive

363
00:24:42,592 --> 00:24:46,125
hoping for victory by Christmas.

364
00:24:46,126 --> 00:24:49,626
But hope soon turns to hell.

365
00:24:54,226 --> 00:24:55,991
Not one of the offensive

366
00:24:55,992 --> 00:24:59,491
of the autumn of
1913 was successful.

367
00:24:59,492 --> 00:25:03,225
Every attack was repulsed

368
00:25:03,226 --> 00:25:06,491
And the Allied casualty list
just got bigger and bigger,

369
00:25:06,492 --> 00:25:08,858
along with something else -

370
00:25:08,859 --> 00:25:12,859
the battlefront itself is
now of an unprecedented size.

371
00:25:14,426 --> 00:25:16,425
And it was growing,

372
00:25:16,426 --> 00:25:19,426
and growing, and growing.

373
00:25:22,726 --> 00:25:26,725
It's about to get worse.

374
00:25:26,726 --> 00:25:28,325
Out in the dark,

375
00:25:28,326 --> 00:25:32,958
the Allies encounter a third
type of alien machine,

376
00:25:32,959 --> 00:25:36,959
and confront the grisly mystery
of their 'vanished' comrades.

377
00:25:45,783 --> 00:25:47,582
By early December,

378
00:25:47,583 --> 00:25:52,583
the vast Martian Front
slices Europe in two.

379
00:25:57,083 --> 00:26:00,082
Herons and Spiders are
holding their line,

380
00:26:00,083 --> 00:26:02,083
repulsing every Allied attack.

381
00:26:11,621 --> 00:26:13,287
A mass of human dead

382
00:26:13,288 --> 00:26:15,553
wrapped in the wreckage of war

383
00:26:15,554 --> 00:26:19,287
litters the battlefield.

384
00:26:19,288 --> 00:26:23,288
But as the sun sets,
the horror rises.

385
00:26:25,254 --> 00:26:26,953
A third alien war machine

386
00:26:26,954 --> 00:26:30,953
crawls out into the
gloom of no man's land,

387
00:26:30,954 --> 00:26:33,454
and begins its work.

388
00:26:37,954 --> 00:26:40,720
It was the threat
of what these machines

389
00:26:40,721 --> 00:26:43,487
were doing during
the hours of darkness

390
00:26:43,488 --> 00:26:46,988
that occupied the thought
of so many of the men.

391
00:26:51,388 --> 00:26:53,653
Not one of us can sleep

392
00:26:53,654 --> 00:26:57,187
not when those fiends ar
moving beyond the wire.

393
00:26:57,188 --> 00:26:58,787
The mere thought of them

394
00:26:58,788 --> 00:27:01,387
of what they're doing
to our dead and wounded,

395
00:27:01,388 --> 00:27:04,388
fills every living
man with dread.

396
00:27:05,688 --> 00:27:07,253
The men called them lice

397
00:27:07,254 --> 00:27:09,020
and there were thousands
and thousands,

398
00:27:09,021 --> 00:27:11,521
and thousands of them.

399
00:27:17,054 --> 00:27:20,820
We could hear the
noise from the lice

400
00:27:20,821 --> 00:27:24,821
coming behind us and cleaning
the ditches for their harvest.

401
00:27:27,821 --> 00:27:29,753
The men at the front believed

402
00:27:29,754 --> 00:27:33,887
the vile purpose of the
night-prowling herds of lice

403
00:27:33,888 --> 00:27:37,388
is to harvest the dead.

404
00:27:39,388 --> 00:27:41,320
Dawn breaks -

405
00:27:41,321 --> 00:27:43,787
The lice retreat
like a black tide.

406
00:27:43,788 --> 00:27:46,153
And everything is gone!

407
00:27:46,154 --> 00:27:47,987
Every shell,
every last shard of battle,

408
00:27:47,988 --> 00:27:49,887
and every one of our dead

409
00:27:49,888 --> 00:27:52,120
My fallen brothers are taken.

410
00:27:52,121 --> 00:27:54,020
Their bodies stolen.

411
00:27:54,021 --> 00:27:56,353
For food?
For fuel?

412
00:27:56,354 --> 00:27:58,520
We hardly dare imagine why

413
00:27:58,521 --> 00:28:00,887
but this is why those
devils are here.

414
00:28:00,888 --> 00:28:04,388
They came for us.

415
00:28:08,888 --> 00:28:10,487
Back at the home front,

416
00:28:10,488 --> 00:28:14,620
entire streets begin receiving
telegrams from the war office

417
00:28:14,621 --> 00:28:18,120
informing them their men
are missing in action.

418
00:28:18,121 --> 00:28:21,621
These missing men become
known as "the vanished"..

419
00:28:22,621 --> 00:28:24,287
It was the first telegram

420
00:28:24,288 --> 00:28:26,453
I'd ever seen.

421
00:28:26,454 --> 00:28:30,120
It said there'd been a battle,

422
00:28:30,121 --> 00:28:32,453
and that he was missing.

423
00:28:32,454 --> 00:28:34,387
That was it.

424
00:28:34,388 --> 00:28:36,987
Oh, my poor mum,

425
00:28:36,988 --> 00:28:41,453
they might just as well
have taken her, too.

426
00:28:41,454 --> 00:28:43,954
'Vanished' is what he was

427
00:28:48,888 --> 00:28:51,053
By now, Gus Lafonde has been

428
00:28:51,054 --> 00:28:55,320
on the front line
for three months.

429
00:28:55,321 --> 00:28:58,487
His duty is to scout
the enemy lines.

430
00:28:58,488 --> 00:29:00,987
But his passion for his
Anishinaabe heritage

431
00:29:00,988 --> 00:29:03,488
pushes him much further
than mere duty.

432
00:29:09,821 --> 00:29:11,620
Unlike his comrades,

433
00:29:11,621 --> 00:29:14,753
Gus ventures behind
the enemy lines,

434
00:29:14,754 --> 00:29:18,687
and into the monstrous
alien camp itself.

435
00:29:18,688 --> 00:29:22,188
Here, he begins to count coup.

436
00:29:24,088 --> 00:29:25,587
In Anishinaabe culture,

437
00:29:25,588 --> 00:29:28,121
a warrior could
prove his courage

438
00:29:29,121 --> 00:29:32,120
by the form of counting coup,

439
00:29:32,121 --> 00:29:35,453
and it was a way
to defeat the enemy

440
00:29:35,454 --> 00:29:38,653
without actually killing them.

441
00:29:38,654 --> 00:29:40,920
The highest form
of counting coup

442
00:29:40,921 --> 00:29:44,620
was to sneak
into the enemy's camp

443
00:29:44,621 --> 00:29:48,587
and to steal something
without being harmed,

444
00:29:48,588 --> 00:29:50,087
without being noticed.

445
00:29:50,088 --> 00:29:53,088
And that's what
Gus began to do.

446
00:29:56,454 --> 00:30:00,453
Gus's ghostlike
scouting behind the alien lines

447
00:30:00,454 --> 00:30:02,687
puts him into frighteningly
close contact

448
00:30:02,688 --> 00:30:06,553
with the Martian army.

449
00:30:06,554 --> 00:30:11,554
For him, each coup is a window
on the aliens' secrets.

450
00:30:13,888 --> 00:30:18,687
This ledger book
is how Gus counted his coup.

451
00:30:18,688 --> 00:30:22,853
There's a sketch of the exact
coup that he had taken -

452
00:30:22,854 --> 00:30:26,354
it's all documented -
it's absolutely amazing.

453
00:30:28,354 --> 00:30:30,053
From this collection of

454
00:30:30,054 --> 00:30:33,420
curious alien markings
and artifacts,

455
00:30:33,421 --> 00:30:35,921
Gus is constructing a key -

456
00:30:40,988 --> 00:30:45,988
a key that Lawrence Hart is now
using to crack the Martian code.

457
00:30:55,288 --> 00:30:58,287
As Christmas 1913 approaches,

458
00:30:58,288 --> 00:31:01,288
the war's influence is being
felt around the world.

459
00:31:03,121 --> 00:31:04,653
In the United States,

460
00:31:04,654 --> 00:31:06,487
although President Wilson
is resisting

461
00:31:06,488 --> 00:31:09,987
committing forces to the front,

462
00:31:09,988 --> 00:31:11,920
American business is eagerly

463
00:31:11,921 --> 00:31:15,421
supplying munitions
and machinery.

464
00:31:22,721 --> 00:31:27,487
Never were the transatlantic
shipping lanes so busy -

465
00:31:27,488 --> 00:31:30,988
a marked contrast to affairs
on the Martian Front.

466
00:31:32,954 --> 00:31:34,953
By December 1913,

467
00:31:34,954 --> 00:31:39,187
all activity on the line
has come to a complete stop -

468
00:31:39,188 --> 00:31:41,287
both Allied and alien.

469
00:31:41,288 --> 00:31:45,853
Their earthwork systems
had gone completely silent,

470
00:31:45,854 --> 00:31:50,854
and everything remained that
way until Christmas night.

471
00:31:54,621 --> 00:31:57,621
It was a rumble.

472
00:31:59,321 --> 00:32:02,121
I felt the mood
change all around me.

473
00:32:05,121 --> 00:32:08,621
We saw a light,
a flashing light,

474
00:32:09,621 --> 00:32:12,754
and it's just like
it says in the song -

475
00:32:16,254 --> 00:32:18,754
"Like a diamond in the sky."

476
00:32:19,754 --> 00:32:22,254
This was the Christmas
star of 1913.

477
00:32:26,588 --> 00:32:28,320
All along the lines,

478
00:32:28,321 --> 00:32:31,321
scores of these objects
begin to be seen,

479
00:32:32,321 --> 00:32:34,820
and then later that nigh

480
00:32:34,821 --> 00:32:37,553
there are tidal disturbances.

481
00:32:37,554 --> 00:32:41,053
There's flooding
in coastal areas.

482
00:32:41,054 --> 00:32:42,687
And then three days later

483
00:32:42,688 --> 00:32:45,688
something much,
much worse happened.

484
00:32:55,621 --> 00:32:58,720
The war has
moved beneath the sea.

485
00:32:58,721 --> 00:33:00,720
The Christmas lights
were colossal machines

486
00:33:00,721 --> 00:33:03,721
launched from deep within
Martian-occupied Europe.

487
00:33:09,688 --> 00:33:12,753
Now moving freely through
the shipping lanes,

488
00:33:12,754 --> 00:33:14,353
these submarine monsters

489
00:33:14,354 --> 00:33:17,854
begin to starve the Allies of
their most vital supplies -

490
00:33:19,421 --> 00:33:22,921
a crippling,
potentially fatal blow.

491
00:33:34,691 --> 00:33:36,590
Throughout 1914,

492
00:33:36,591 --> 00:33:39,423
the savage conflict rages

493
00:33:39,424 --> 00:33:43,490
Desperate refugees flee
the shattered cities.

494
00:33:43,491 --> 00:33:46,056
Victories are
bought at huge cost,

495
00:33:46,057 --> 00:33:49,057
then stolen back within days.

496
00:33:51,471 --> 00:33:53,237
Other than terrible losses,

497
00:33:53,238 --> 00:33:54,438
we'd achieved next to nothing.

498
00:33:55,438 --> 00:33:57,937
And slowly but surely,

499
00:33:57,938 --> 00:34:00,605
the notion of a swift
victory had died.

500
00:34:08,838 --> 00:34:11,770
The sea war intensifies.

501
00:34:11,771 --> 00:34:15,837
The July 1914 sinking of an
American passenger liner

502
00:34:15,838 --> 00:34:19,338
openly divides public
opinion in the United States.

503
00:34:30,338 --> 00:34:32,537
President Wilson remains adamant

504
00:34:32,538 --> 00:34:35,504
that while the Americas
are free of Martians,

505
00:34:35,505 --> 00:34:38,337
US troops stay home.

506
00:34:38,338 --> 00:34:40,337
But former president
Teddy Roosevelt

507
00:34:40,338 --> 00:34:42,338
demands "action this day.

508
00:34:50,938 --> 00:34:53,870
Roosevelt gets th
permission of Congress

509
00:34:53,871 --> 00:34:57,405
to raise a volunteer force to
fight on the Martian Front.

510
00:34:59,171 --> 00:35:01,470
But Wilson use
his presidential powers

511
00:35:01,471 --> 00:35:04,904
to stop the troops shipping out.

512
00:35:04,905 --> 00:35:07,570
Now Roosevelt is enraged

513
00:35:07,571 --> 00:35:10,837
He travels the country
to drum up support...

514
00:35:10,838 --> 00:35:12,337
It works...

515
00:35:12,338 --> 00:35:13,837
Two weeks later,

516
00:35:13,838 --> 00:35:16,170
the presidential
veto is withdrawn

517
00:35:16,171 --> 00:35:19,470
and a small volunteer
force, "the Frontiersmen,

518
00:35:19,471 --> 00:35:21,971
sails for Europe.

519
00:35:23,838 --> 00:35:27,338
And Roosevelt waves
them off from New York harbour.

520
00:35:31,371 --> 00:35:32,404
I didn't see him.

521
00:35:32,405 --> 00:35:34,337
He didn't see him.
I saw him.

522
00:35:34,338 --> 00:35:36,737
And yeah, he waved us off,

523
00:35:36,738 --> 00:35:38,570
and it was really gung-ho.

524
00:35:38,571 --> 00:35:40,804
I mean this was, you know,

525
00:35:40,805 --> 00:35:43,370
images of San Juan Hill
all over again.

526
00:35:43,371 --> 00:35:45,404
Yeah, bully for him.

527
00:35:45,405 --> 00:35:47,237
Yeah. So we imagined,

528
00:35:47,238 --> 00:35:51,504
as we left on the boat, we thought, "Boy,
this is going to be a great adventure.

529
00:35:51,505 --> 00:35:54,004
We're going to go over there, and
beat the hell out of these guys,

530
00:35:54,005 --> 00:35:55,437
and come home heroes."

531
00:35:55,438 --> 00:35:56,437
Heroes -

532
00:35:56,438 --> 00:35:58,070
and it didn't quite
work out that way.

533
00:35:58,071 --> 00:36:01,071
But we were eager -
eager to go.

534
00:36:05,771 --> 00:36:07,904
In autumn 1914,

535
00:36:07,905 --> 00:36:11,537
corporal Gus Lafonde finally
pushes his luck too far

536
00:36:11,538 --> 00:36:14,038
and is severely injured.

537
00:36:17,238 --> 00:36:19,104
Lawrence Hart believes an entry

538
00:36:19,105 --> 00:36:21,904
Gus made in his notebook
while recovering

539
00:36:21,905 --> 00:36:24,870
shows he had spotted
a Martian strategy

540
00:36:24,871 --> 00:36:29,871
Allied command had missed

541
00:36:31,205 --> 00:36:32,704
Here it is -

542
00:36:32,705 --> 00:36:34,704
here's what he wrote -

543
00:36:34,705 --> 00:36:39,537
"Ki gii baadenmigoome
mi shaa miigaadying."

544
00:36:39,538 --> 00:36:42,371
That's Anishinaabamowen.

545
00:36:49,671 --> 00:36:53,304
The phrase that
Corporal LaFonde

546
00:36:53,305 --> 00:36:57,770
wrote in his diary describes
a type of battle strategy.

547
00:36:57,771 --> 00:36:59,804
Now, in fencing,
we call it a faint -

548
00:36:59,805 --> 00:37:01,370
it's a false attack,

549
00:37:01,371 --> 00:37:03,404
or it could be a false retreat -

550
00:37:03,405 --> 00:37:05,837
and it's to make the
enemy act the way

551
00:37:05,838 --> 00:37:08,037
you want the enemy to act -

552
00:37:08,038 --> 00:37:11,037
to deliberately look weak
or to even seem to lose,

553
00:37:11,038 --> 00:37:14,038
in order to gain a later
more important victory.

554
00:37:15,505 --> 00:37:18,505
Gus Lafonde has worked
out what no Allied general had -

555
00:37:19,838 --> 00:37:21,637
that the Martians
were deliberately

556
00:37:21,638 --> 00:37:25,304
losing battles in 1914
to entice the Allies

557
00:37:25,305 --> 00:37:29,304
into ever larger
offensive campaigns.

558
00:37:29,305 --> 00:37:31,537
These so-called experts

559
00:37:31,538 --> 00:37:34,637
that held the lives of
millions in their hands

560
00:37:34,638 --> 00:37:37,137
didn't have a clue.

561
00:37:37,138 --> 00:37:39,970
Why is it vital to
acknowledge this?

562
00:37:39,971 --> 00:37:42,471
Because of what they
decided to do next.

563
00:37:53,571 --> 00:37:55,137
By 1915,

564
00:37:55,138 --> 00:37:56,570
the Chiefs of Staff

565
00:37:56,571 --> 00:37:58,971
were under huge pressure
to deliver a definitive victory.

566
00:37:59,971 --> 00:38:01,470
At this point,

567
00:38:01,471 --> 00:38:03,904
their only strategic
advantage was manpower,

568
00:38:03,905 --> 00:38:05,670
and so they planned
to make fuller use

569
00:38:05,671 --> 00:38:08,171
of that than ever before

570
00:38:09,571 --> 00:38:11,104
The Allies plan -

571
00:38:11,105 --> 00:38:15,105
a simultaneous attack along
the entire Martian line.

572
00:38:17,271 --> 00:38:18,837
The aim was to stretch

573
00:38:18,838 --> 00:38:22,037
the alien army's resource
past breaking point,

574
00:38:22,038 --> 00:38:24,870
and then to decisively penetrate

575
00:38:24,871 --> 00:38:28,971
and then overrun
the enemy defences.

576
00:38:33,471 --> 00:38:35,037
With this great push,

577
00:38:35,038 --> 00:38:39,137
looming aerial reconnaissance
units and French spotters

578
00:38:39,138 --> 00:38:43,237
deliver disturbing
news to their masters -

579
00:38:43,238 --> 00:38:45,404
legions of Martian
reinforcements

580
00:38:45,405 --> 00:38:48,570
are moving towards France

581
00:38:48,571 --> 00:38:50,404
The success of an
all out offensive

582
00:38:50,405 --> 00:38:52,971
is now in grave doubt.

583
00:38:55,138 --> 00:39:00,137
The Allied command
is in a difficult situation,

584
00:39:00,138 --> 00:39:02,204
but to do nothing,

585
00:39:02,205 --> 00:39:04,704
and just let the alien
reinforcements arrive,

586
00:39:04,705 --> 00:39:06,537
well, that would
have been madness.

587
00:39:06,538 --> 00:39:11,038
They had to make a decision
- they had to act quickly.

588
00:39:12,038 --> 00:39:14,037
A controversia decision is made

589
00:39:14,038 --> 00:39:17,038
to bring forward the
push by one month.

590
00:39:19,805 --> 00:39:21,370
The war at sea
had already compromised

591
00:39:21,371 --> 00:39:22,870
their ability to move troops,

592
00:39:22,871 --> 00:39:24,870
and equipment they
deemed necessary.

593
00:39:24,871 --> 00:39:28,004
And now they wanted to move
the attack from June to May -

594
00:39:28,005 --> 00:39:30,005
Total, utter folly.

595
00:39:37,471 --> 00:39:39,670
<i>And so the</i>
<i>push is launched early -</i>

596
00:39:39,671 --> 00:39:41,670
<i>I believe you were on</i>
<i>the front line itself</i>

597
00:39:41,671 --> 00:39:43,304
<i>that first day?</i>

598
00:39:43,305 --> 00:39:46,237
Yes, with the 4th
Newfoundland Regiment.

599
00:39:46,238 --> 00:39:48,538
We were expecting casualties,
of course,

600
00:39:52,538 --> 00:39:54,037
but that day,

601
00:39:54,038 --> 00:39:57,038
endless waves of men
went out over the top.

602
00:40:00,538 --> 00:40:04,038
I've never been so
frightened in my life.

603
00:40:09,738 --> 00:40:12,238
My heart just jumped
right out of my body.

604
00:40:16,271 --> 00:40:21,270
These were horrible,
horrible, horrible things

605
00:40:21,271 --> 00:40:24,737
And you were scared
to death to think

606
00:40:24,738 --> 00:40:27,204
that they were going to get you

607
00:40:27,205 --> 00:40:29,205
and tear you to ribbons.

608
00:40:33,205 --> 00:40:35,205
They had no rules at all

609
00:40:41,871 --> 00:40:43,904
We saw almost nothing,

610
00:40:43,905 --> 00:40:46,405
but we could hear it
all while we waited -

611
00:40:51,038 --> 00:40:53,270
the guns, the shells,

612
00:40:53,271 --> 00:40:56,271
the deafening machines.

613
00:40:58,271 --> 00:41:01,771
But through all that noise,
we could still hear the screams,

614
00:41:09,838 --> 00:41:13,770
and we just stood there,
waiting.

615
00:41:13,771 --> 00:41:16,404
But nobody came back.

616
00:41:16,405 --> 00:41:21,405
Not a single wounded man
for me to help.

617
00:41:24,205 --> 00:41:27,904
Did you know that
on that first day,

618
00:41:27,905 --> 00:41:32,904
over 850,000 men went out
into those fields,

619
00:41:32,905 --> 00:41:37,905
and at the end of
the day they were all gone?

620
00:41:39,905 --> 00:41:41,404
After three weeks,

621
00:41:41,405 --> 00:41:44,537
the High Command calls
the push to a halt.

622
00:41:44,538 --> 00:41:48,538
In that time
3 million men had vanished.

623
00:41:51,971 --> 00:41:54,304
They had no
idea how their actions

624
00:41:54,305 --> 00:41:58,770
were actually aiding and
abetting the aliens.

625
00:41:58,771 --> 00:42:00,970
They had no perception

626
00:42:00,971 --> 00:42:04,470
of what Corporal
Lafonde had realized.

627
00:42:04,471 --> 00:42:05,971
They had no clue.

628
00:42:07,405 --> 00:42:09,437
The terrible news of the push

629
00:42:09,438 --> 00:42:11,704
reached Gus in hospital.

630
00:42:11,705 --> 00:42:14,670
As the scale of the
disaster became clear,

631
00:42:14,671 --> 00:42:18,837
the normally analytical
pages of his notebooks

632
00:42:18,838 --> 00:42:23,537
are scrawled with sketches
of an all-consuming monster.

633
00:42:23,538 --> 00:42:27,537
The creature he drew is from
Anishinaabe mythology -

634
00:42:27,538 --> 00:42:29,538
a wendigo.

635
00:42:34,371 --> 00:42:37,937
This is a wendigo,

636
00:42:37,938 --> 00:42:42,337
and its sole purpose is to
take as much as it can -

637
00:42:42,338 --> 00:42:46,337
and it will stop at nothing.

638
00:42:46,338 --> 00:42:47,904
For the wendigo,

639
00:42:47,905 --> 00:42:50,905
the bigger it gets,
the more it wants to eat

640
00:42:56,705 --> 00:42:58,170
Lawrence Hart believes

641
00:42:58,171 --> 00:43:01,437
that Gus's wendigo
sketches are further proof

642
00:43:01,438 --> 00:43:04,638
he had deduced the
central Martian tactic -

643
00:43:10,571 --> 00:43:13,204
that they were relying
on Allied command

644
00:43:13,205 --> 00:43:15,404
to make mass attacks,

645
00:43:15,405 --> 00:43:18,737
with the lice deployed to
harvest and directly fee

646
00:43:18,738 --> 00:43:21,238
the alien war machine.

647
00:43:26,371 --> 00:43:28,504
What if the formation
of this enormous Front

648
00:43:28,505 --> 00:43:31,237
was part of their grand scheme?

649
00:43:31,238 --> 00:43:34,738
What if it was the surest way
to get exactly what they wanted?

650
00:43:40,438 --> 00:43:42,870
The abject failure of the push,

651
00:43:42,871 --> 00:43:46,037
and the relentless consumption
of men and resources,

652
00:43:46,038 --> 00:43:49,037
had cast doubts upon
the Allies' leadership.

653
00:43:49,038 --> 00:43:52,105
The government back in
Britain is finished.

654
00:43:53,671 --> 00:43:56,470
They were in an
impossible situation.

655
00:43:56,471 --> 00:43:59,971
No one had ever fought a war
remotely like this one before.

656
00:44:01,071 --> 00:44:04,071
Something had to change.

657
00:44:09,982 --> 00:44:12,582
The catastroph of spring 1915

658
00:44:12,676 --> 00:44:15,176
forces a change of
government back in Britain.

659
00:44:21,849 --> 00:44:26,849
Younger, more progressive
minds demand a fresh approach.

660
00:44:38,810 --> 00:44:42,210
To address the technological
imbalance between the two sides,

661
00:44:42,252 --> 00:44:44,485
a new goal emerged -

662
00:44:44,501 --> 00:44:47,167
to lay hands on
alien technology,

663
00:44:47,168 --> 00:44:49,367
and then to harness it

664
00:44:49,368 --> 00:44:52,833
and to turn it back
against the enemy.

665
00:44:52,834 --> 00:44:55,334
But that was easier
said than done.

666
00:44:59,101 --> 00:45:01,433
Capture a Heron.

667
00:45:01,434 --> 00:45:06,434
That was the plan.

668
00:45:08,675 --> 00:45:11,874
At St. Jans Cappell,
on the French-Belgian border,

669
00:45:11,875 --> 00:45:16,375
tunnels are dug in secret all
the way under the Martian line.

670
00:45:17,375 --> 00:45:19,807
Crammed with
tons of explosives,

671
00:45:19,808 --> 00:45:21,874
the blast is
designed to take down

672
00:45:21,875 --> 00:45:26,574
one of the Martians'
ultimate killing machines.

673
00:45:26,575 --> 00:45:29,340
This mission impossible would
hinge on an elite force

674
00:45:29,341 --> 00:45:34,307
of 3,000 men racing in to
salvage the downed Heron

675
00:45:34,308 --> 00:45:37,307
before Spiders arrive.

676
00:45:37,308 --> 00:45:40,641
Hughie Logan was
one of those men.

677
00:45:42,341 --> 00:45:44,140
Oh, it was an honour
to be selected.

678
00:45:44,141 --> 00:45:47,274
No doubt about that,
a great honour -

679
00:45:47,275 --> 00:45:49,840
And it was absolutely
terrifying.

680
00:45:49,841 --> 00:45:52,341
We were scared to death.

681
00:45:54,208 --> 00:45:56,207
They hope to destroy

682
00:45:56,208 --> 00:46:00,208
a 5-mile section of the alien
line in a single blast.

683
00:46:01,341 --> 00:46:05,907
On the 1st of July 1916,
at exactly 7:00 AM,

684
00:46:05,908 --> 00:46:08,908
the dawn silence is shattered.

685
00:46:16,908 --> 00:46:21,408
The blast just knocked
the wind right out of you

686
00:46:24,341 --> 00:46:25,908
They said they could fee
it all the way in London

687
00:46:27,841 --> 00:46:30,340
At least one Heron is down.

688
00:46:30,341 --> 00:46:32,841
But could it be
successfully retrieved?

689
00:46:37,241 --> 00:46:40,974
3,000 men will have to
go tearing across 400 yards

690
00:46:40,975 --> 00:46:44,475
of blasted,
shattered fields of mud.

691
00:46:45,475 --> 00:46:46,974
I pulled myself up,

692
00:46:46,975 --> 00:46:49,107
grabbed the sides
of the ladder,

693
00:46:49,108 --> 00:46:51,541
climbed up and
over the parapet.

694
00:46:57,575 --> 00:46:58,974
Where the ridge had been

695
00:46:58,975 --> 00:47:01,340
there was this
enormous cloud of dust

696
00:47:01,341 --> 00:47:04,707
expanding across no man's land,

697
00:47:04,708 --> 00:47:08,707
and a single mass of men was
running straight into it.

698
00:47:08,708 --> 00:47:10,707
And when the two came together,

699
00:47:10,708 --> 00:47:13,708
the men were gone, engulfed.

700
00:47:16,075 --> 00:47:18,074
We're moving forward,

701
00:47:18,075 --> 00:47:22,008
and then a shape appeared
and then another one.

702
00:47:23,008 --> 00:47:25,507
And up ahead,
there's guys' voices shouting,

703
00:47:25,508 --> 00:47:29,008
"We got two of them!
We got two in the blast.

704
00:47:30,508 --> 00:47:32,440
I can't believe it.

705
00:47:32,441 --> 00:47:35,674
I can't believe what we've done.

706
00:47:35,675 --> 00:47:39,274
I'm standing feet away
from this huge dome,

707
00:47:39,275 --> 00:47:43,775
the cockpit sticking out of the
earth like a half-closed eye,

708
00:47:46,508 --> 00:47:49,440
but then I see something moving,

709
00:47:49,441 --> 00:47:53,807
something moving
fast towards us,

710
00:47:53,808 --> 00:47:56,074
coming straight at us.

711
00:47:56,075 --> 00:47:58,575
Spiders.

712
00:48:00,575 --> 00:48:02,574
There are two of them,
and then there was four,

713
00:48:02,575 --> 00:48:05,707
and then three more came
and seven of them, right

714
00:48:05,708 --> 00:48:10,708
And then I'm thinking,
"Jeeze. It's all over."

715
00:48:14,641 --> 00:48:16,140
With the Herons down,

716
00:48:16,141 --> 00:48:19,640
the Spiders have
lost their masters.

717
00:48:19,641 --> 00:48:24,141
And the war takes
an unexpected turn.

718
00:48:25,141 --> 00:48:27,141
There was no attack -

719
00:48:28,141 --> 00:48:31,874
then one of them
starts moving slowly,

720
00:48:31,875 --> 00:48:35,874
and the ribbon starts
moving and spiraling up.

721
00:48:35,875 --> 00:48:39,375
All of them are doing
the exact same thing.

722
00:48:40,375 --> 00:48:43,375
And they just stayed
that way the whole time.

723
00:48:44,375 --> 00:48:48,374
Then we realize it's
a gesture of surrender.

724
00:48:48,375 --> 00:48:51,175
They've surrendered.

725
00:48:58,708 --> 00:49:03,707
I looked and I saw coming
out of the dust cloud

726
00:49:03,708 --> 00:49:08,708
the two Heron cockpits carried
by those seven machines.

727
00:49:13,341 --> 00:49:17,340
The surrendered
Spiders are helping the Allies.

728
00:49:17,341 --> 00:49:19,707
They are carrying
the Heron cockpits

729
00:49:19,708 --> 00:49:24,708
back to the Allied line.

730
00:49:25,741 --> 00:49:27,274
Dear Clara,

731
00:49:27,275 --> 00:49:30,007
remember that race
I wrote you about?

732
00:49:30,008 --> 00:49:35,007
Well, I got the gold Bluebell -
in fact we all did.

733
00:49:35,008 --> 00:49:37,508
We won more than we
ever hoped to.

734
00:49:47,941 --> 00:49:51,274
News of the
triumph quickly spreads.

735
00:49:51,275 --> 00:49:54,274
And when the captured
Heron cockpit is opened,

736
00:49:54,275 --> 00:49:58,775
at last the people of Earth
know the face of their enemy.

737
00:50:01,441 --> 00:50:03,440
Those stupid newspapers...

738
00:50:03,441 --> 00:50:05,407
they said that we
should be less scared

739
00:50:05,408 --> 00:50:07,407
now we know they're
no bigger than us.

740
00:50:07,408 --> 00:50:10,408
Well I think they're wrong!

741
00:50:13,741 --> 00:50:15,874
Almost disregarded alongside

742
00:50:15,875 --> 00:50:17,874
the creature in the
Heron cockpit

743
00:50:17,875 --> 00:50:21,374
are the first of
many alien texts.

744
00:50:21,375 --> 00:50:23,440
They are sent to
the code breakers,

745
00:50:23,441 --> 00:50:26,441
as all attention turns
to the unopened Spiders.

746
00:50:35,675 --> 00:50:39,507
Transported to Roundway Down
Experimental Station in Britain,

747
00:50:39,508 --> 00:50:41,274
scientists and soldiers prepare

748
00:50:41,275 --> 00:50:44,775
for their first encounter
with a live alien.

749
00:50:53,475 --> 00:50:57,174
Of course there
was no encounter -

750
00:50:57,175 --> 00:51:00,507
For the soldiers positioned
here directly underneath,

751
00:51:00,508 --> 00:51:02,840
they were the first
to see clearly that,

752
00:51:02,841 --> 00:51:06,474
unlike the Heron cockpits
there was no pilot inside

753
00:51:06,475 --> 00:51:09,975
In fact, there was nothin
discernibly living at all

754
00:51:12,808 --> 00:51:16,140
This unexpected
mystery is followed

755
00:51:16,141 --> 00:51:19,340
by the gravest of discoveries -

756
00:51:19,341 --> 00:51:22,774
one that would finally reveal
the fate of the vanished,

757
00:51:22,775 --> 00:51:26,275
and damn the
High Command's entire war plan.

758
00:51:29,041 --> 00:51:31,240
It begins when Roundway Down

759
00:51:31,241 --> 00:51:34,741
deduces the composition
of the alien machines.

760
00:51:35,908 --> 00:51:38,907
This piece is a piece

761
00:51:38,908 --> 00:51:41,874
of Heron cockpit,

762
00:51:41,875 --> 00:51:44,374
and these pieces -

763
00:51:44,375 --> 00:51:47,840
from two of
the seven surrendered Spiders -

764
00:51:47,841 --> 00:51:49,907
They're all made from
metals and alloys

765
00:51:49,908 --> 00:51:53,040
which are abundant on earth -

766
00:51:53,041 --> 00:51:54,840
iron, steel, lead,

767
00:51:54,841 --> 00:51:56,607
copper, tin.

768
00:51:56,608 --> 00:51:59,207
In other words,
Roundway Down realized

769
00:51:59,208 --> 00:52:01,207
that the majority of
the alien war machines

770
00:52:01,208 --> 00:52:03,708
had been built after
they had arrived.

771
00:52:06,808 --> 00:52:08,674
And that was when
the activities

772
00:52:08,675 --> 00:52:12,274
of the Martian lice
on no man's land

773
00:52:12,275 --> 00:52:15,275
began to make a
dreadful new sense.

774
00:52:17,475 --> 00:52:19,640
The long-held
belief that the lice

775
00:52:19,641 --> 00:52:22,040
are harvesting the
bodies of the dead

776
00:52:22,041 --> 00:52:25,541
is silenced by
a shocking truth.

777
00:52:28,408 --> 00:52:29,907
In fact, all along,

778
00:52:29,908 --> 00:52:33,207
there had been something of far
greater worth to the aliens -

779
00:52:33,208 --> 00:52:36,840
the thousands of tonnes
of shells and bullets

780
00:52:36,841 --> 00:52:39,940
and materials of warfare
that we had been depositing

781
00:52:39,941 --> 00:52:43,441
on the fields of the
Front every single day.

782
00:52:46,141 --> 00:52:48,774
The aliens build
their killing machines

783
00:52:48,775 --> 00:52:52,341
with metals carried into
battle by the Allies.

784
00:52:56,875 --> 00:52:59,874
Well, every shell I ever fired

785
00:52:59,875 --> 00:53:02,375
only ever made them stronger.

786
00:53:09,041 --> 00:53:11,074
With this realization,

787
00:53:11,075 --> 00:53:14,374
the true fate of the millions
of missing soldiers -

788
00:53:14,375 --> 00:53:17,875
"the vanished" -
was finally understood.

789
00:53:18,875 --> 00:53:20,374
Here's the truth -

790
00:53:20,375 --> 00:53:22,340
and the truth is much worse

791
00:53:22,341 --> 00:53:25,374
than the rumours about th
human rendering factories

792
00:53:25,375 --> 00:53:27,107
and the alien food stores

793
00:53:27,108 --> 00:53:30,040
and that's this -

794
00:53:30,041 --> 00:53:33,240
They were still there
out in those fields -

795
00:53:33,241 --> 00:53:35,807
crushed, eviscerated,

796
00:53:35,808 --> 00:53:39,607
ground into the mud.

797
00:53:39,608 --> 00:53:43,040
All the while the lice
were swarming around

798
00:53:43,041 --> 00:53:45,640
and they were foraging for
what they truly valued -

799
00:53:45,641 --> 00:53:48,574
and that was the lead,
the metal,

800
00:53:48,575 --> 00:53:53,141
the steel to make even bigger
and greater machines of war.

801
00:53:56,608 --> 00:54:00,108
And then we learnt
what really happened.

802
00:54:01,408 --> 00:54:04,107
They weren't taken away
by the Martians at all!

803
00:54:04,108 --> 00:54:08,374
They were still there,
in that mud.

804
00:54:08,375 --> 00:54:13,375
They were crushed
and churned up!

805
00:54:14,608 --> 00:54:19,607
And all they wanted
was the metal!

806
00:54:19,608 --> 00:54:23,108
I'll never stop hating
them for what they did.

807
00:54:34,108 --> 00:54:35,740
These corridors under

808
00:54:35,741 --> 00:54:39,107
the Combined Allied
Commission for the Vanished

809
00:54:39,108 --> 00:54:42,407
bear mute witness to the
sheer numbers who died.

810
00:54:42,408 --> 00:54:45,207
Look in each of these boxes -

811
00:54:45,208 --> 00:54:47,707
34 files -

812
00:54:47,708 --> 00:54:50,840
each file is a human life
lost in the war,

813
00:54:50,841 --> 00:54:55,841
and there are
27 miles of corridors.

814
00:55:01,808 --> 00:55:05,574
This is the
lowest moment of the war

815
00:55:05,575 --> 00:55:09,740
Humanity is staring
into the abyss,

816
00:55:09,741 --> 00:55:11,807
but Roundway Down
are about to discover

817
00:55:11,808 --> 00:55:15,808
an alien secret that could
turn the tide of the war...

818
00:55:27,380 --> 00:55:30,145
Across Europe,
the mood is dark.

819
00:55:30,146 --> 00:55:33,146
But at Roundway Down,
there is a breakthrough.

820
00:55:41,500 --> 00:55:44,199
In analyzing the
surrendered Spiders,

821
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,432
the element that
enables and powers them

822
00:55:46,433 --> 00:55:48,366
is examined in detail.

823
00:55:49,733 --> 00:55:54,233
To the perplexed scientists,
it's nothing short of a wonder.

824
00:55:55,233 --> 00:55:57,732
This liquid
element which powers

825
00:55:57,733 --> 00:56:00,432
all movement and weaponry
in the Martian machines

826
00:56:00,433 --> 00:56:02,532
is like nothing
previously observed.

827
00:56:02,533 --> 00:56:06,099
An organic metal capable
of self-replication

828
00:56:06,100 --> 00:56:09,232
and what we can only
term as awareness.

829
00:56:09,233 --> 00:56:13,099
As we investigate it responds
and appears to work with us.

830
00:56:13,100 --> 00:56:14,665
Though impossible to classify,

831
00:56:14,666 --> 00:56:17,166
we have given it a name
victicite.

832
00:56:22,366 --> 00:56:24,865
The discovery is a lifeline.

833
00:56:24,866 --> 00:56:26,532
The order immediately goes out

834
00:56:26,533 --> 00:56:28,999
to turn the wonder
material victicite

835
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,500
back against the aliens.

836
00:56:32,766 --> 00:56:35,065
There were profound
philosophical questions

837
00:56:35,066 --> 00:56:38,632
to be asked about victicite -

838
00:56:38,633 --> 00:56:40,899
its nature,
its properties -

839
00:56:40,900 --> 00:56:44,399
but all that was
left by the wayside.

840
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,500
Why?
Progress was being made!

841
00:56:53,766 --> 00:56:56,665
A first wave of
victicite-based war machines

842
00:56:56,666 --> 00:56:59,166
are soon rolling
off the assembly line -

843
00:57:04,300 --> 00:57:06,999
including an all terrain
fighting vehicle

844
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:11,532
called a landship.

845
00:57:11,533 --> 00:57:13,299
They are swiftly tested,

846
00:57:13,300 --> 00:57:15,932
made front line ready,

847
00:57:15,933 --> 00:57:19,433
and in October 1916, deployed.

848
00:57:23,933 --> 00:57:26,433
Prematurely, as it turned out.

849
00:57:37,433 --> 00:57:38,999
At Douchey, les Mines,

850
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,699
we were hasty,
and it ended in failure.

851
00:57:41,700 --> 00:57:43,699
But it was an
encouraging failure.

852
00:57:43,700 --> 00:57:46,332
We had successfully engaged
the alien for a while

853
00:57:46,333 --> 00:57:49,665
and it was his overwhelming
superiority in numbers

854
00:57:49,666 --> 00:57:52,965
and really bad
battlefield conditions

855
00:57:52,966 --> 00:57:54,465
that proved too much.

856
00:57:54,466 --> 00:57:57,733
So there was ground
here for real optimism.

857
00:58:05,433 --> 00:58:06,665
Faced with weapons

858
00:58:06,666 --> 00:58:08,933
made using their
own technology,

859
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:15,865
the Martian strategy shifts.

860
00:58:15,866 --> 00:58:19,332
All along the Front,
attacks intensify.

861
00:58:19,333 --> 00:58:22,332
The aliens are no
longer nurturing war.

862
00:58:22,333 --> 00:58:24,866
They're going for
outright victory.

863
00:58:30,633 --> 00:58:33,632
Then, on November the 5th

864
00:58:33,633 --> 00:58:38,299
Allied command's worst
fears are realized.

865
00:58:38,300 --> 00:58:40,465
Near the
northern tip of the line

866
00:58:40,466 --> 00:58:42,465
in the Netherlands,

867
00:58:42,466 --> 00:58:44,966
a single Heron breaks
through to the Channel ports.

868
00:58:49,366 --> 00:58:51,365
This is the stuff
of nightmares -

869
00:58:51,366 --> 00:58:52,865
After three years,

870
00:58:52,866 --> 00:58:54,865
the moment everyone
in Great Britain

871
00:58:54,866 --> 00:58:56,366
has been dreading has arrived.

872
00:58:58,666 --> 00:59:02,666
Well, there is chaos
here in Command Centre.

873
00:59:04,100 --> 00:59:06,265
It's low tide in the Thames,

874
00:59:06,266 --> 00:59:08,432
so the navy can't give chase,

875
00:59:08,433 --> 00:59:10,632
and the small force that
was originally assigned

876
00:59:10,633 --> 00:59:12,365
to protect the
British mainland,

877
00:59:12,366 --> 00:59:14,365
the Home Air Defence Squadron,

878
00:59:14,366 --> 00:59:16,366
it was critically depleted.

879
00:59:18,366 --> 00:59:19,865
There are just two pilots

880
00:59:19,866 --> 00:59:22,299
within striking
distance of London,

881
00:59:22,300 --> 00:59:27,300
testing new
victicite-based weaponry

882
00:59:28,433 --> 00:59:32,066
British aces Edwin Sinclair
and Gregory West.

883
00:59:34,066 --> 00:59:36,300
They are immediately scrambled.

884
00:59:41,166 --> 00:59:44,399
As the invader advances
up the Thames estuary,

885
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:46,299
warnings spread
throughout London,

886
00:59:46,300 --> 00:59:49,999
and anti-alien batteries in
Regent's park take up position.

887
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,500
Now most people flee
westward, away from the danger,

888
00:59:59,500 --> 01:00:01,099
but thousands of people,

889
01:00:01,100 --> 01:00:03,065
with no conception of
the danger they're in,

890
01:00:03,066 --> 01:00:05,032
choose to line the embankment.

891
01:00:05,033 --> 01:00:07,299
The police are
issued with rifles.

892
01:00:07,300 --> 01:00:10,299
But as they attempt to
drive the crowd back,

893
01:00:10,300 --> 01:00:13,300
a silence suddenly falls as
a shape heaves into view.

894
01:00:21,033 --> 01:00:25,132
And there it is.

895
01:00:25,133 --> 01:00:27,565
Do I run?

896
01:00:27,566 --> 01:00:29,065
Do I hell!

897
01:00:29,066 --> 01:00:31,066
I run straight at it!

898
01:00:40,633 --> 01:00:44,632
The new
weaponry stalls the Heron

899
01:00:44,633 --> 01:00:46,733
but it's not enough.

900
01:00:48,700 --> 01:00:50,699
And it's here that it fires

901
01:00:50,700 --> 01:00:54,199
a single shot at
Sinclair's plane,

902
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:55,932
and as we all know,

903
01:00:55,933 --> 01:00:57,833
the shot misses and
strikes Big Ben.

904
01:01:04,833 --> 01:01:07,400
But help is on the way..

905
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:10,400
A third aircraft is coming in.

906
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:15,399
It has followed the
path of the Heron

907
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,699
all the way from
the Dutch coast.

908
01:01:17,700 --> 01:01:21,432
In the cockpit is a young
Hungarian aristocrat,

909
01:01:21,433 --> 01:01:23,599
Count Laslo Andrazovski,

910
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:27,600
and he is about to become the
most famous man in Europe.

911
01:01:34,333 --> 01:01:36,999
I saw him give the signal
to the other two,

912
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:38,532
and they came in behind him,

913
01:01:38,533 --> 01:01:42,033
and he leads 'em straight
down to the bastard.

914
01:01:46,633 --> 01:01:48,200
Gotcha!

915
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:55,299
The expertly coordinated fir

916
01:01:55,300 --> 01:01:58,800
had broken through
the Heron's shield.

917
01:02:00,133 --> 01:02:02,132
Count Lazslo's first
visit to London

918
01:02:02,133 --> 01:02:04,999
would become
the stuff of legend.

919
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,299
And as for the brief footage
of the falling Heron,

920
01:02:08,300 --> 01:02:10,665
that would be replayed
again and again

921
01:02:10,666 --> 01:02:12,165
throughout the entire world.

922
01:02:12,166 --> 01:02:16,165
It was of immense value
for public morale.

923
01:02:16,166 --> 01:02:18,132
Of greatest importance,
of course,

924
01:02:18,133 --> 01:02:20,766
was what happened
in the aftermath.

925
01:02:21,766 --> 01:02:24,265
The London
crowd, baying for blood,

926
01:02:24,266 --> 01:02:26,633
descends on the fallen Heron.

927
01:02:27,633 --> 01:02:29,632
Then we are runnin'
onto the bridge,

928
01:02:29,633 --> 01:02:32,465
and there's fire and all
sorts falling on top of us,

929
01:02:32,466 --> 01:02:33,965
but we don't care,

930
01:02:33,966 --> 01:02:36,532
'cos we're so busy
tearing at the cockpit.

931
01:02:36,533 --> 01:02:38,065
And I want to do it, too

932
01:02:38,066 --> 01:02:40,032
because I want the same
as they want,

933
01:02:40,033 --> 01:02:42,365
I want to be
the one that finds him

934
01:02:42,366 --> 01:02:44,400
and rips him out
of the wreckage!

935
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,466
Then there's a surprise.

936
01:02:48,466 --> 01:02:52,199
I see him and he's alive!

937
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:57,133
Wriggling like an eel on a hook

938
01:02:58,133 --> 01:03:02,800
and then he sees me
and he's scared.

939
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,300
I know he's scared of me

940
01:03:08,866 --> 01:03:11,365
And then the police come
racing through on their horses

941
01:03:11,366 --> 01:03:13,866
and we're all forced
back on the bridge.

942
01:03:16,100 --> 01:03:18,099
The mounted
police clear the crowds

943
01:03:18,100 --> 01:03:22,732
and escort the living alien as
it is rushed to Roundway Down.

944
01:03:22,733 --> 01:03:25,365
But within minutes
of its arrival,

945
01:03:25,366 --> 01:03:27,866
the Martian pilot is dead

946
01:03:29,433 --> 01:03:33,332
Any initial disappointment
vanishes during the post-mortem,

947
01:03:33,333 --> 01:03:36,099
because here Roundway Dow

948
01:03:36,100 --> 01:03:38,599
make their key discovery
of the entire war,

949
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:41,600
and it's immediately
classified "Most Secret"

950
01:03:50,433 --> 01:03:52,532
The autopsy
reveals the alien died

951
01:03:52,533 --> 01:03:56,533
from infection by an animal
virus called glanders.

952
01:03:58,066 --> 01:04:01,566
It was caught through contact
with the police horses.

953
01:04:04,500 --> 01:04:06,299
Now at Roundway Down,

954
01:04:06,300 --> 01:04:08,965
the race is on to
replicate the virus

955
01:04:08,966 --> 01:04:13,433
and create a super weapon

956
01:04:14,433 --> 01:04:17,433
The code name of the
weapon is Trojan Horse.

957
01:04:19,433 --> 01:04:21,433
It couldn't come soon enough.

958
01:04:29,937 --> 01:04:32,736
After three
years of crippling war,

959
01:04:32,737 --> 01:04:37,136
the Allies have found a
virus lethal to the aliens.

960
01:04:37,137 --> 01:04:40,637
But the Martian attacks are
intensifying on land and sea.

961
01:04:47,737 --> 01:04:51,237
The troops at the front cannot
hold them off much longer.

962
01:05:02,203 --> 01:05:04,002
They seemed indestructible.

963
01:05:04,003 --> 01:05:05,803
I remember one of them -

964
01:05:06,211 --> 01:05:08,711
There was this guy next to you,

965
01:05:11,912 --> 01:05:14,412
and then this foot comes
down and crushes this guy

966
01:05:15,412 --> 01:05:18,478
like leaves on the sole
of your boots.

967
01:05:18,479 --> 01:05:21,012
I mean, how do you fight
something like that?

968
01:05:22,012 --> 01:05:24,912
We needed something,
and we needed it fast.

969
01:05:30,020 --> 01:05:32,585
As the line continues to fray,

970
01:05:32,586 --> 01:05:34,219
the Aerial
Reconnaissance Division

971
01:05:34,220 --> 01:05:37,720
sights large numbers of
alien machines moving west.

972
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:40,720
There is no time to lose

973
01:05:53,420 --> 01:05:55,952
In January 1917,

974
01:05:55,953 --> 01:06:00,453
a solemn report is delivered
to the Allied leadership.

975
01:06:03,753 --> 01:06:05,752
It is wit
the heaviest of hearts

976
01:06:05,753 --> 01:06:08,385
we must conclude within
the next six months

977
01:06:08,386 --> 01:06:10,552
the total breakdown
of our defensive line

978
01:06:10,553 --> 01:06:14,053
on the Martian Front
is a certainty.

979
01:06:16,053 --> 01:06:18,185
Just nine days
after this statement

980
01:06:18,186 --> 01:06:20,552
predicts the fall of Europe,

981
01:06:20,553 --> 01:06:24,052
three American naval
destroyers returning to New York

982
01:06:24,053 --> 01:06:26,953
are sunk off
the gulf of Mexico.

983
01:06:27,953 --> 01:06:29,652
You do know there
weren't any actual

984
01:06:29,653 --> 01:06:31,319
sightings of alien machines -

985
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,819
just distress signals
and garbled messages

986
01:06:34,820 --> 01:06:36,820
about coming under attack

987
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:45,419
Allied U-boats did have
a range of 5,000 miles -

988
01:06:45,420 --> 01:06:47,919
more than enough
to be in those waters.

989
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:50,819
Look, I'm not saying the
were in those waters.

990
01:06:50,820 --> 01:06:52,319
All I'm saying is that

991
01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:54,320
they could have been
in those waters.

992
01:06:59,253 --> 01:07:01,385
Aliens or Allies,

993
01:07:01,386 --> 01:07:06,352
the debate still simmers as to
who was behind the attacks.

994
01:07:06,353 --> 01:07:11,252
What is certain is hysteria
took hold on American streets.

995
01:07:11,253 --> 01:07:15,253
Roosevelt's pro-war supporters
besieged the White House.

996
01:07:16,253 --> 01:07:17,852
Wilson has become

997
01:07:17,853 --> 01:07:20,120
the lamest of
presidential ducks.

998
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:23,485
This can come to
only one conclusion,

999
01:07:23,486 --> 01:07:25,986
and it's an unprecedented one.

1000
01:07:28,286 --> 01:07:30,652
Woodrow Wilson resigns,

1001
01:07:30,653 --> 01:07:34,285
Roosevelt is sworn
in as US president,

1002
01:07:34,286 --> 01:07:37,785
and on the 17th
of February 1917,

1003
01:07:37,786 --> 01:07:41,286
America finally enters th
war against the Martians

1004
01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:46,452
Within months,
the volunteer "Frontiersmen",

1005
01:07:46,453 --> 01:07:48,519
now hardened veterans,

1006
01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:52,552
see their conscripted American
countrymen arriving in France,

1007
01:07:52,553 --> 01:07:56,053
at the rate of
12,000 men a day...

1008
01:07:57,553 --> 01:07:59,019
That was a good thing.

1009
01:07:59,020 --> 01:08:00,185
They were finally coming

1010
01:08:00,186 --> 01:08:02,219
Yeah, nice to see them.

1011
01:08:02,220 --> 01:08:04,485
Mazel tov!
What took you so long?

1012
01:08:04,486 --> 01:08:05,985
You know,
I'm serious -

1013
01:08:05,986 --> 01:08:07,485
I mean, what took them so long?

1014
01:08:07,486 --> 01:08:09,486
We'd been in this thing
for three years already.

1015
01:08:16,486 --> 01:08:18,052
With this massive injection

1016
01:08:18,053 --> 01:08:20,319
of troops from the States

1017
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:23,820
Allied command prepares
for the end game.

1018
01:08:25,686 --> 01:08:28,119
The Allies are
playing all their cards here.

1019
01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:30,620
This is it now.
This is all or nothing.

1020
01:08:32,886 --> 01:08:34,919
Immediately after
the Westminster alien's

1021
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:37,219
death from infection,

1022
01:08:37,220 --> 01:08:38,719
Roundway Down begins

1023
01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:41,852
mass-producing
the glanders virus.

1024
01:08:41,853 --> 01:08:46,052
They must now deliver
the weapon to the enemy.

1025
01:08:46,053 --> 01:08:49,019
The risks to humans
are uncertain,

1026
01:08:49,020 --> 01:08:50,519
but for High Command,

1027
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:53,019
there is no alternative
to biological warfare

1028
01:08:53,020 --> 01:08:54,520
on the Martian Front.

1029
01:09:03,820 --> 01:09:06,152
In the summer of 1917,

1030
01:09:06,153 --> 01:09:10,352
rumours of an Allied secret
weapon are spreading fast,

1031
01:09:10,353 --> 01:09:12,520
infecting the men with hope.

1032
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:21,219
It hardly seems possible

1033
01:09:21,220 --> 01:09:23,919
but I feel it like
a fire inside me.

1034
01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:25,719
After four years of losses -

1035
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:28,385
four years of blood, of agony,

1036
01:09:28,386 --> 01:09:31,886
of endless murder -
we can win.

1037
01:09:36,020 --> 01:09:39,985
They had developed
a secret weapon.

1038
01:09:39,986 --> 01:09:42,085
So you know, alright -
bring it on.

1039
01:09:42,086 --> 01:09:45,586
We're ready to go.

1040
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:50,119
No one knew what it was,

1041
01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:53,386
but we believed that
it could help us win.

1042
01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:00,719
The days tick by,

1043
01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:04,352
and the alien army
continues to reinforce.

1044
01:10:04,353 --> 01:10:08,752
Roundway Down are struggling
to mass-produce the virus.

1045
01:10:08,753 --> 01:10:13,253
With no sign of a new weapon
at the Front, hope fades.

1046
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:22,785
Each day there were a million
Spiders creeping closer,

1047
01:10:22,786 --> 01:10:27,420
and then every day we're saying,
"Okay, where's the weapon?"

1048
01:10:28,420 --> 01:10:33,252
They were only
50, 40, 30 miles away,

1049
01:10:33,253 --> 01:10:36,253
and still nothing.

1050
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:38,819
And then we were told

1051
01:10:38,820 --> 01:10:41,885
that we were going into
battle in three days,

1052
01:10:41,886 --> 01:10:45,385
and now there was
no feeling at all,

1053
01:10:45,386 --> 01:10:50,352
'cause we knew nothing's
coming to save us.

1054
01:10:50,353 --> 01:10:52,353
Nothing.

1055
01:10:57,686 --> 01:11:00,519
It was a terrible realization.

1056
01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:04,019
There was no answer -
just disillusionment.

1057
01:11:04,020 --> 01:11:06,686
That's all -
utter disillusionment.

1058
01:11:07,853 --> 01:11:10,685
Desertions were occurring
up and down the Allied Front,

1059
01:11:10,686 --> 01:11:12,185
as well as several mutinies

1060
01:11:12,186 --> 01:11:14,186
which had to be
forcibly put down.

1061
01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:17,586
I had it. I left.

1062
01:11:18,586 --> 01:11:20,685
I knew this was my last time,

1063
01:11:20,686 --> 01:11:22,385
I would not survive.

1064
01:11:22,386 --> 01:11:25,085
I had this feeling
that my time was up.

1065
01:11:25,086 --> 01:11:28,019
I was a soldier for four years,

1066
01:11:28,020 --> 01:11:32,019
and yet from now and forever,

1067
01:11:32,020 --> 01:11:35,520
I'll be a deserter.

1068
01:11:37,853 --> 01:11:40,085
Only the elite few know

1069
01:11:40,086 --> 01:11:44,585
Operation Trojan Horse
is finally ready,

1070
01:11:44,586 --> 01:11:49,085
but its success is dependent
on a mass assault.

1071
01:11:49,086 --> 01:11:52,086
It's vital the
troops are rallied.

1072
01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:56,719
Field marshal Sir Douglas Haig

1073
01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:59,720
issues a
special order of the day

1074
01:12:01,386 --> 01:12:03,885
Many amongst us are tired.

1075
01:12:03,886 --> 01:12:06,119
To those, I say hold firm.

1076
01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:08,619
Ultimate victory is
within our grasp.

1077
01:12:08,620 --> 01:12:10,119
With our backs to the wall,

1078
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:12,485
and believing in the justice
of our cause,

1079
01:12:12,486 --> 01:12:15,752
each one of us must
fight on to the end.

1080
01:12:15,753 --> 01:12:19,019
The safety of our homes and
the freedom of mankind alike

1081
01:12:19,020 --> 01:12:21,485
depend upon the conduct
of each one of us

1082
01:12:21,486 --> 01:12:23,486
at this critical moment.

1083
01:12:27,586 --> 01:12:29,252
Haig's words hit the mark

1084
01:12:29,253 --> 01:12:30,885
The line rallied.

1085
01:12:30,886 --> 01:12:32,585
Order seemed to restore itself -

1086
01:12:32,586 --> 01:12:34,919
even though very few
remained in any doubt

1087
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:36,420
as to their probable fate

1088
01:12:42,353 --> 01:12:45,019
The night
before the last offensive

1089
01:12:45,020 --> 01:12:49,019
William Payne leaves his
diary in a field hospital

1090
01:12:49,020 --> 01:12:50,519
The final entry is addressed

1091
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:53,086
to the young nurse
he had long admired.

1092
01:12:54,086 --> 01:12:56,919
You bestow a million kindnesses

1093
01:12:56,920 --> 01:12:59,752
upon men you know not

1094
01:12:59,753 --> 01:13:02,452
and never see again.

1095
01:13:02,453 --> 01:13:06,152
Perform one more for another -

1096
01:13:06,153 --> 01:13:11,153
keep this safe
as if it were my heart.

1097
01:13:14,186 --> 01:13:17,185
At 7:00 AM
the following day,

1098
01:13:17,186 --> 01:13:21,186
the largest military offensive
in human history begins.

1099
01:13:28,391 --> 01:13:30,791
The secret weapon is ready,

1100
01:13:30,890 --> 01:13:32,889
and the means to
carry the infection

1101
01:13:32,890 --> 01:13:35,890
to the aliens is in place

1102
01:13:39,857 --> 01:13:44,489
Great herds of glanders-infected
horses are waiting,

1103
01:13:44,490 --> 01:13:47,990
massed in vast pens
along a 50-mile line.

1104
01:13:50,223 --> 01:13:53,256
These unwitting weapons
of mass destruction

1105
01:13:53,257 --> 01:13:55,756
are tended by
volunteer wardens...

1106
01:13:55,757 --> 01:13:57,757
like Hughie Logan.

1107
01:14:00,990 --> 01:14:02,522
I'd never seen so many
horses all together -

1108
01:14:02,523 --> 01:14:04,022
nobody had.

1109
01:14:04,023 --> 01:14:06,956
And that was just our station.

1110
01:14:06,957 --> 01:14:11,022
Success requires an
attack to draw the Martians in,

1111
01:14:11,023 --> 01:14:13,556
followed by a surprise retreat,

1112
01:14:13,557 --> 01:14:17,557
which will lure the alien
towards the horse pens.

1113
01:14:18,957 --> 01:14:20,989
The entire attack is focused

1114
01:14:20,990 --> 01:14:23,489
on one 50-mile section.

1115
01:14:23,490 --> 01:14:25,489
This is the greatest
concentration

1116
01:14:25,490 --> 01:14:26,990
of troops ever seen.

1117
01:14:32,890 --> 01:14:34,422
The entire army is throw

1118
01:14:34,423 --> 01:14:37,122
against the alien legion

1119
01:14:37,123 --> 01:14:41,256
The results are predictable.

1120
01:14:41,257 --> 01:14:45,257
The Allies take
horrendous casualties,

1121
01:14:47,757 --> 01:14:49,757
barely holding the line.

1122
01:14:56,257 --> 01:14:57,756
Then the order goes up

1123
01:14:57,757 --> 01:15:01,257
to pull the trigger
on the secret weapon.

1124
01:15:02,523 --> 01:15:04,122
They suddenly turn

1125
01:15:04,123 --> 01:15:06,023
and begin a full retreat

1126
01:15:09,023 --> 01:15:11,222
The Martians give chase,

1127
01:15:11,223 --> 01:15:16,223
annihilating everything and
everyone in their path.

1128
01:15:17,223 --> 01:15:19,223
This has become a rout.

1129
01:15:22,290 --> 01:15:23,422
And it is exactly

1130
01:15:23,423 --> 01:15:25,789
what High Command
had hoped for.

1131
01:15:25,790 --> 01:15:27,489
The triumphant aliens,

1132
01:15:27,490 --> 01:15:30,022
charging after the
retreating troops,

1133
01:15:30,023 --> 01:15:32,523
are heading right where
the Allies want them.

1134
01:15:38,857 --> 01:15:42,889
The whistles sound and th
wardens open the gates,

1135
01:15:42,890 --> 01:15:45,156
sending thousands
of infected horses

1136
01:15:45,157 --> 01:15:49,022
stampeding through the
ranks of retreating soldiers

1137
01:15:49,023 --> 01:15:50,657
towards the Martians.

1138
01:15:55,657 --> 01:16:00,089
We had to drive the horse
back towards the line.

1139
01:16:00,090 --> 01:16:03,589
We lined up at
the back of the pen

1140
01:16:03,590 --> 01:16:06,689
and we shouted at them,

1141
01:16:06,690 --> 01:16:10,189
screamed at them, hit them.

1142
01:16:10,190 --> 01:16:12,289
And I was glad I was
wearing my gas mask,

1143
01:16:12,290 --> 01:16:15,790
because I didn't
want them to see me.

1144
01:16:17,723 --> 01:16:21,756
And once they panic,

1145
01:16:21,757 --> 01:16:25,756
they'll all go in a herd
even the old cart horses

1146
01:16:25,757 --> 01:16:27,756
They'll get the scent
in their nostrils,

1147
01:16:27,757 --> 01:16:30,856
and they'll follow, too,

1148
01:16:30,857 --> 01:16:33,322
and that's what happened

1149
01:16:33,323 --> 01:16:34,822
Bang!

1150
01:16:34,823 --> 01:16:38,189
Away they went at full gallop,

1151
01:16:38,190 --> 01:16:41,757
right into that fury, that hell.

1152
01:16:48,523 --> 01:16:50,689
The infected
horses are engulfed

1153
01:16:50,690 --> 01:16:53,656
by the alien advance.

1154
01:16:53,657 --> 01:16:55,889
To the soldiers on the ground,

1155
01:16:55,890 --> 01:16:59,390
this action seems both
horrific and futile.

1156
01:17:03,390 --> 01:17:05,389
The alien force resumes

1157
01:17:05,390 --> 01:17:08,722
its pounding action
towards the coast,

1158
01:17:08,723 --> 01:17:11,956
without any clue that the fatal
blow has already been struck.

1159
01:17:11,957 --> 01:17:15,957
And that the day and indeed the
entire war are finally ours.

1160
01:17:19,023 --> 01:17:23,023
Operation Trojan
Horse has delivered.

1161
01:17:24,023 --> 01:17:26,556
The invading army never
reached the coast.

1162
01:17:26,557 --> 01:17:29,389
Within days and within hours,

1163
01:17:29,390 --> 01:17:32,256
the Herons come to a
complete standstill.

1164
01:17:32,257 --> 01:17:34,022
In each of the cockpits,

1165
01:17:34,023 --> 01:17:36,523
the lone pilot is rapidly dying.

1166
01:17:37,890 --> 01:17:40,289
The symptoms are
always the same -

1167
01:17:40,290 --> 01:17:41,989
frothing at the mouth,

1168
01:17:41,990 --> 01:17:44,522
grossly swollen
respiratory tract,

1169
01:17:44,523 --> 01:17:48,523
and in their single lung,
a fatal accumulation of fluid.

1170
01:17:49,623 --> 01:17:53,789
Simply put, they drowned

1171
01:17:53,790 --> 01:17:55,822
Two day later,

1172
01:17:55,823 --> 01:17:59,323
the Allies proclaim
victory around the world

1173
01:18:03,323 --> 01:18:08,323
Victory, but a victory
won on the hardest terms.

1174
01:18:18,323 --> 01:18:20,022
Two million were lost.

1175
01:18:20,023 --> 01:18:22,022
Now, let me be quite
clear about that -

1176
01:18:22,023 --> 01:18:25,523
that's two million that Allied
command were willing to lose.

1177
01:18:26,623 --> 01:18:30,622
It was an immense price,

1178
01:18:30,623 --> 01:18:33,089
but it was the price
that was necessary

1179
01:18:33,090 --> 01:18:37,589
in order to induce the deep
systemic infection of the alien

1180
01:18:37,590 --> 01:18:40,723
that was needed for us to win.

1181
01:18:43,057 --> 01:18:46,022
In the immediate
aftermath of the war,

1182
01:18:46,023 --> 01:18:49,989
the infected horses and
millions of refugees

1183
01:18:49,990 --> 01:18:54,189
struggled to survive in the
ruins that was once Europe.

1184
01:18:54,190 --> 01:18:58,522
In the squalor,
the glanders virus spreads.

1185
01:18:58,523 --> 01:19:01,089
As it does, it mutates,

1186
01:19:01,090 --> 01:19:04,056
and soon becomes
an airborne contagion

1187
01:19:04,057 --> 01:19:08,422
that easily infects the
mass of susceptible humans.

1188
01:19:08,423 --> 01:19:10,756
Over the next five years

1189
01:19:10,757 --> 01:19:14,256
the death toll
from "Martian flu"

1190
01:19:14,257 --> 01:19:17,356
would reach 100 million.

1191
01:19:17,357 --> 01:19:20,857
One casualty is
young Clara Logan.

1192
01:19:23,723 --> 01:19:25,089
She died in 1920.

1193
01:19:25,090 --> 01:19:28,489
It was nearly the end of it.

1194
01:19:28,490 --> 01:19:31,990
She was one of
the last it took.

1195
01:19:33,757 --> 01:19:36,757
She was 23.

1196
01:19:39,957 --> 01:19:42,956
Was it me?

1197
01:19:42,957 --> 01:19:47,456
Was I one of the guys
that brought it back?

1198
01:19:47,457 --> 01:19:50,056
Maybe.

1199
01:19:50,057 --> 01:19:54,522
I didn't know.

1200
01:19:54,523 --> 01:19:59,389
I still don't know.

1201
01:19:59,390 --> 01:20:02,890
All I knew was...

1202
01:20:06,357 --> 01:20:08,857
she was gone.

1203
01:20:21,957 --> 01:20:25,389
As Europe begins
to put itself back together,

1204
01:20:25,390 --> 01:20:27,389
the Martian nest sites reveal

1205
01:20:27,390 --> 01:20:30,890
their immense
stockpiles of victicite.

1206
01:20:32,357 --> 01:20:35,356
The contents of
the alien nest sites

1207
01:20:35,357 --> 01:20:36,856
were the biggest,

1208
01:20:36,857 --> 01:20:40,689
and most valuable
prize of all waiting for us.

1209
01:20:40,690 --> 01:20:44,889
Vast quantities of victicite
presented humankind

1210
01:20:44,890 --> 01:20:47,890
with enormous possibilities.

1211
01:20:49,223 --> 01:20:50,722
The products of victicite

1212
01:20:50,723 --> 01:20:53,889
become a vital part of
the modern world.

1213
01:20:53,890 --> 01:20:55,589
This organic metal,

1214
01:20:55,590 --> 01:20:58,656
with its ability to
perceive and respond,

1215
01:20:58,657 --> 01:21:03,157
opens up a
technological gold rush.

1216
01:21:05,090 --> 01:21:07,756
I'm constantly surprised
at the number of our visitors

1217
01:21:07,757 --> 01:21:11,089
who just don't seem to realize
how many aspects of modern life

1218
01:21:11,090 --> 01:21:13,956
can be traced right back
to the Martian war -

1219
01:21:13,957 --> 01:21:16,356
So many advancements
that we've made

1220
01:21:16,357 --> 01:21:19,089
in telecommunications,
in science and engineering,

1221
01:21:19,090 --> 01:21:21,089
and in medicine -
even in travel.

1222
01:21:21,090 --> 01:21:25,590
They can be traced right
back to this time, to them.

1223
01:21:31,823 --> 01:21:34,822
Kim Lafonde
has grown up in a world

1224
01:21:34,823 --> 01:21:39,722
that has prospered through the
widespread use of victicite.

1225
01:21:39,723 --> 01:21:42,022
But the key to the
Martian code she uncovered

1226
01:21:42,023 --> 01:21:44,389
in her great grandfather's cabin

1227
01:21:44,390 --> 01:21:48,889
is set to question the
benefits of this progress

1228
01:21:48,890 --> 01:21:52,889
Kim may have lifted
the lid on a warning -

1229
01:21:52,890 --> 01:21:55,390
the invasion is not over.

1230
01:22:03,627 --> 01:22:06,159
My family, at some point,

1231
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:09,660
we forgot my great grandfather.

1232
01:22:12,860 --> 01:22:15,726
I was born nine
years after he died,

1233
01:22:15,727 --> 01:22:17,226
and 21 years later,

1234
01:22:17,227 --> 01:22:21,059
I came here and
opened up that trunk.

1235
01:22:21,060 --> 01:22:24,526
The things that he
learned about the war,

1236
01:22:24,527 --> 01:22:26,526
those things survived.

1237
01:22:26,527 --> 01:22:28,026
They remain in this book

1238
01:22:28,027 --> 01:22:31,027
and they were here
for me to find.

1239
01:22:39,660 --> 01:22:42,126
In his study
of these notebooks,

1240
01:22:42,127 --> 01:22:44,192
the historian
Lawrence Hart believes

1241
01:22:44,193 --> 01:22:47,026
that Gus's Anishinaabe heritage

1242
01:22:47,027 --> 01:22:48,892
granted him a unique
perspective

1243
01:22:48,893 --> 01:22:51,126
on the alien symbols,

1244
01:22:51,127 --> 01:22:54,627
and led directly to the
cracking of the Martian code.

1245
01:22:57,593 --> 01:22:59,726
Hart has completed the work,

1246
01:22:59,727 --> 01:23:03,226
and applied it to the
collected alien texts.

1247
01:23:03,227 --> 01:23:04,726
To his surprise,

1248
01:23:04,727 --> 01:23:07,226
many appear to be very
personal writings,

1249
01:23:07,227 --> 01:23:08,727
even laments.

1250
01:23:10,060 --> 01:23:14,360
These are not unlike our letters
and diaries written by our own.

1251
01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:17,359
Now, this symbol here

1252
01:23:17,360 --> 01:23:20,659
is the most common symbol
translated in the texts.

1253
01:23:20,660 --> 01:23:23,292
We find it over and
over and over again.

1254
01:23:23,293 --> 01:23:27,293
And the nearest word
I can translate is this

1255
01:23:35,093 --> 01:23:37,092
But most extraordinary

1256
01:23:37,093 --> 01:23:40,160
is the text recovered fro
the Westminster Heron.

1257
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:46,459
Hart is convinced it wasn't
trying to obliterate London,

1258
01:23:46,460 --> 01:23:48,460
but offer a warning.

1259
01:23:49,460 --> 01:23:51,459
These are some
of the key symbols

1260
01:23:51,460 --> 01:23:53,626
that make up the text.

1261
01:23:53,627 --> 01:23:55,892
Now this first row here

1262
01:23:55,893 --> 01:23:57,392
the alien describes himself

1263
01:23:57,393 --> 01:24:01,692
as a warrior that
represents all warriors.

1264
01:24:01,693 --> 01:24:05,692
Now here, he says that
he has been deceived,

1265
01:24:05,693 --> 01:24:08,493
like we will be deceived

1266
01:24:09,493 --> 01:24:11,626
Hart believes
that the deception

1267
01:24:11,627 --> 01:24:15,092
described by the Westminster
alien is that their race

1268
01:24:15,093 --> 01:24:17,526
was itself once invaded,

1269
01:24:17,527 --> 01:24:21,492
and infected by a parasite -

1270
01:24:21,493 --> 01:24:25,492
the same parasite that drove
them to invade Earth in 1913 -

1271
01:24:25,493 --> 01:24:27,493
to infect us.

1272
01:24:29,993 --> 01:24:32,192
The text goes
on to recount how,

1273
01:24:32,193 --> 01:24:34,792
a long time ago
in their history,

1274
01:24:34,793 --> 01:24:38,192
their planet was invaded
by an alien species

1275
01:24:38,193 --> 01:24:43,026
whose technology was powered
by this symbol here -

1276
01:24:43,027 --> 01:24:46,527
a thriving metal
that feeds on life.

1277
01:24:49,893 --> 01:24:51,892
The strange metal material

1278
01:24:51,893 --> 01:24:56,893
described in this translation
Hart believes is victicite.

1279
01:24:59,127 --> 01:25:01,459
Victicite has long
been recognized

1280
01:25:01,460 --> 01:25:03,559
as a form of life
in its own right.

1281
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:05,726
So ask yourself this -

1282
01:25:05,727 --> 01:25:07,392
What is a form of life

1283
01:25:07,393 --> 01:25:10,926
that takes possession
of another species,

1284
01:25:10,927 --> 01:25:12,692
that modifies its host behaviour

1285
01:25:12,693 --> 01:25:15,226
to dispense itself in
even greater numbers?

1286
01:25:15,227 --> 01:25:18,959
What else if not a parasite?

1287
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:22,460
But that is precisely
what victicite is.

1288
01:25:26,727 --> 01:25:29,659
If Lawrence Hart is right

1289
01:25:29,660 --> 01:25:32,226
and the aliens were
infected carriers

1290
01:25:32,227 --> 01:25:37,226
forced to spread the parasitic
victicite across the galaxy,

1291
01:25:37,227 --> 01:25:40,793
then what next for us?

1292
01:25:42,527 --> 01:25:44,959
Now it's our turn to stand

1293
01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:48,026
at the gateway to the stars.

1294
01:25:48,027 --> 01:25:50,526
It's our turn to reach
out to the void of space

1295
01:25:50,527 --> 01:25:53,960
and our turn to carry and spread
the parasite yet further.

1296
01:26:04,693 --> 01:26:09,159
How can you win a war, when
with every blow you land,

1297
01:26:09,160 --> 01:26:11,160
you're only making
the enemy stronger?

1298
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:25,659
This one was for
the last offensive.

1299
01:26:25,660 --> 01:26:29,027
It's says "bravery",
but I say it was crazy -

1300
01:26:30,027 --> 01:26:32,827
because I'd have to
be crazy to go back.

1301
01:26:51,327 --> 01:26:53,826
We just volunteered!

1302
01:26:53,827 --> 01:26:55,492
And do you know the
first thing we learned

1303
01:26:55,493 --> 01:26:56,992
when we were in the army?

1304
01:26:56,993 --> 01:26:58,993
Never volunteer for anything.

1305
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:10,759
Two girls, one boy.

1306
01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:13,093
That's what we're gonna have.

1307
01:27:18,927 --> 01:27:20,926
My whole life since then...

1308
01:27:20,927 --> 01:27:23,359
I've been waiting for
them to come back...

1309
01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:25,359
But I don't know...

1310
01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:27,860
I don't believe they ever left.