Silent Cities: Visiting the LARGEST Military Cemetery in France | History Traveler Episode 384

When you visit the Western Front in France, one thing thing that you'll see a lot of are cemeteries. A lot of them. The sheer volume of crosses and headstones in the silent cities of the Western Front help to give an indication of how destructive the First World War really was. In this episode, we're visiting a town that was completely destroyed during the war before walking the ground of the largest military cemetery in France at Notre Dame de Lorette.

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