Brave Little Belgium - Season 1 Episode 4 An Expensive Peace
0.0048 minutes
New weapons appear on the battlefield: planes, flamethrowers, tanks, U-boats! At the field hospitals, radiography and plastic surgery are introduced. In 1918 the American troops come to massively reinforce the allies. On the 11th of November 1918 the French and the Germans sign the truce. The Spanish Flue kills 40 to 70 million people worldwide. In Versaille the map of Europe is redesigned: 4 empires cease to exist. Belgium is destroyed. In Maritime Flanders the battlefields are being cleaned up and 1000's of casualties are being buried in more than 160 military graveyards.