This is the first episode where we have covered an event during the first World War. By 1917, the war had been raging for 3 years with massive casualties on all sides as little territory had been gained. The Battle of Passchendaele  was a large British offensive in Flanders. The battle was fought over six months in dreadful conditions and by the time Canadian soldiers took the village of Passchendaele in November, there was almost 270,000 Allied casualties. We interviewed Dr Nick Lloyd who is a professor in Military & Imperial History in the Defense Studies Department. He is the author of four books: Loos 1915 (2006); The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day (2011); Hundred Days: The End of the Great War (2013) and Passchendaele: A New History (2017). We explore the battle, its legacy, and the impact that it had on the war.