Bread cut with sawdust. Horses boiled to the bone. Men trading pet dogs and mice for scraps.
In the brutal winter of 1914 to 1915, the grand Austro-Hungarian fortress of Przemyśl came under siege. Cut off by Russian armies and doomed by the vanity of their own generals, the garrison survived by the skin of their teeth until a final, desperate breakout charge…
Dan Snow is joined by Alexander Watson, author of ‘The Fortress’, to step inside WWI’s longest, bloodiest siege.
Produced by Mariana Des Forges and James Hickmann, edited by Natasha Hughes and Dougal Patmore.
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