BBC - Soldiers A History of Men in Battle (1985) Part 4 Infantry
Wars are conflicts between states and societies. Soldiers are the human means through which wars are fought. Soldiers, the major BBC series on the history of warfare, tells its story through the different types of soldiers who have fought each other since warfare began.
“War changes men and it changes Man; it alters our world and our history, our political systems, our social attitudes, our perceptions and our moralities. By showing how men go into it, pass through it and emerge from it, 'Soldiers' tells us something we need to know.” - Frederick Forsyth
Part 4: Infantry
Here we meet the infantryman, from the great empires of the ancient world to the Roman legionary tramping with sword, shield and spear along the dusty roads of Europe; we follow him down the centuries to the Marine truding across the bleak moors of the Falklands. How the infantryman's life, in some ways has remained the same since Roman times, but also how the weapons have developed.
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