LONG ITINERARY
Complementing the short itinerary, this version takes in theme-based areas that explore various aspects of the conflict:
- A new war: technological developments in such areas as artillery, camouflage, communications and equipment,
- Total mobilisation: commitment to the war effort on the part of entire populations,
- Women at war: women’s place in the conflict and the decisive role they played,
- Daily life in the trenches: the life endured by millions of men in the trenches,
- Tactics and strategy: development of strategies and portraits of the men that drafted them,
- Bodies and souls: the extreme violence of the war and the scientific advances that resulted from it,
- Living far from home: the everyday lives and sufferings of prisoners of war and of those living in occupied territories,
- Globalisation: the interplay of alliances and involvement of colonial empires,
- From over the hills to the trenches: participation in the conflict by soldiers drafted from the French colonies and protectorates,
- The United States of America: recreation of an American camp and the major part played by the American Expeditionary Force in the final victory.
