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Assignment - Ypres: The City of the Dead

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Assignment: Ypres: The City of the Dead

Assignment - Ypres: The City of the Dead

During the First World War half a million men were killed in the fields around the small medieaval town of Ypres in northern Belgium. Ypres is the site of one of the most famous memorials built to commemorate the dead and the missing, the Menin Gate. Now as, Chris Moore reports in Assignment, this town has to confront its terrible past each and every day.
Broadcast on:
BBC World Service, 10:06am Sunday 24th May 2009
Duration:
23 minutes
Available until:
12:00am Thursday 1st January 2099
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