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At the end of the Great War, nearly two million soldiers were missing, presumed dead. Almost 90 years later, the bloody battlegrounds of France and Belgium are surrendering their secrets.
A team of archaeologists, historians and forensic experts is working to identify unknown soldiers and finally lay them to rest.

THE TRENCH DETECTIVES is a 5 x 45? documentary series that follows the work of this team as it moves through time and across the battlefields of France and Belgium,
releasing the fallen and their stories of courage and sacrifice from the mud of the First World War battles in which they fought and died.
Each episode focuses on an archaeological dig at the site of a single significant battle of the Great War.
Objects and evidence found there are traced back, through painstaking detective work, to a soldier or soldiers whose personal story can then be told. 
The excavation sites may masquerade as rolling countryside, productive farmland or territory earmarked for development but each one bears the scars of intense fighting -
a landscape that hides huge cemeteries full of men who were buried by time.
Andy Robertshaw is one of our investigators. He is a military historian and educator with the National Army Museum in Britain.
He and the team spend months on war ground excavations, painstakingly uncovering bones, clothing and personal effects - pieces in a jigsaw,
clues to the identity of the lost soldier who lies where he fell. This is contemporary archaeology writ large.
And The Trench Detectives are rescuers of history. Its purpose: to save and conserve the past, lest we forget.
Its aim: to identify and honour those who gave their lives in the war that was meant to end all wars. 



Dit is een serie documentaires van Channel 5 ( UK ).
Ik heb van de losse afleveringen een twee delige DVD gemaakt met een menu.
De eerste DVD bevat twee afleveringen, de tweede DVD drie afleveringen.

Beide DVD's bevatten GEEN ondertitels.


Deel 1: Loos en Passchendaele.
Deel 2: Serre, Ypres en Beaumont Hamel