Part One: The Spring Offensive

In early 1918 the Germans launch a mighty attack advancing more than 60 kilometres in only three days. Standing in their path are British, Australian, Canadian and French forces, while the Americans are arriving to join the fight. The onslaught triggers a command crisis: Field Marshal Haig and Marshal Foch want Australia’s General Monash and Canada’s General Currie, to apply their minds to perfecting a new way of waging war – one that will deliver ultimate victory. The generals arrive at the same conclusion: the path to victory lays with the use of the latest communication equipment to carefully co-ordinate artillery, tanks, aircraft and infantry. It’s not only the beginning of ‘total war’, but the birth of modern warfare. By August, they’re ready…for what will become a major turning point in the War: the battle of Amiens.