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To support Thematic studies focusing on Warfare and British Society, Anglia has created a range of tours exploring the relationship between war and society and the changing nature and experience of warfare itself.
Examining the industrialisation of warfare, this 4-day tour begins in Belgium with the story of one of the most significant single-day battles in European history. At Waterloo the Grand Armies of the early modern age would be seen for the last time, as mass infantry and cavalry charges met concentrated artillery and volley fire from massed ranks of muskets. The need to seek cover from industrial firepower would become apparent in the Great War one hundred years later and the tour will explore how the Great Powers responded to this relatively new and unexpected form of warfare and the challenges it posed, considering the realities of trench warfare and the new technologies and tactics designed to break the stalemate.
The theories and practice of Blitzkrieg and the experience of British soldiers in 1940 will bring this tour to a fitting conclusion as we follow the route of the retreating Allied troops to Dunkirk.
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These tours support all programmes of study and specifications covering:
Thematic study: Warfare and British Society
War and British Society
Britain, Europe and the Wider World: 1901-Present Day
Britain at War
The Impact and Experience of war in Britain
The Changing Nature of Warfare
Warfare Through Time