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Passchendaele - the horror of war

A hundred years after the First World War battle of Passchendaele, a Conservative MP paints a vivid picture of the horrors of the battlefield in Belgium, while a Labour MP claims thousands of young men went to their deaths because of disastrous decisions by generals. Keith Macdougall reports.
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