Эпизод 12

Second part of a documentary film about the First World War which centres around extracts from the letters between military surgeon Georges Duhamel and his wife Blanche, who moved to the frontline capitial at Amiens in order to be closer to her husband. They corresponded regularly for 4 years, and extracts from some of their letters are read over film footage, much of it previously unseen, of the front and of how business and pleasure continued alongside scenes of suffering as British, French and colonial troops came and went from the city. Most of the footage is of French troops.