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Radio 3,4 mins

James Taylor on the role of wood in World War One as weapon, shelter, killer and spy

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Historian James Taylor from the Imperial War Museum shows Samira Ahmed some of the wooden artefacts which tell a story of wood's darker destructive side. Image: Chateau Wood, Ypres 1917. Photography by Frank Hurley. From Australian War Memorial, E01220.

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