Perspective: Over the Top and Into Battle with the Combi

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You can't turn on the television without coming across a programme with a war theme, from the slaughter and fornication of the Romans to the battle for Iraq.

Documentaries about the Second World War usually dominate the early and mid-evening schedules but the First World War is back in vogue. The BBC has been looking at Britain's last Tommies - the survivors of the 1914-18 war - while Channel 4 last night screened a docu-drama about the Somme, to be followed by a series dedicated to stories inspired by war memorials.

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Perspective: Over the Top and Into Battle with the Combi

There's no middle ground when it comes to these shows - no "No Man's Land", so to speak. You either are fascinated by this stuff, or bor...

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