WWI's Stalingrad: The Siege of Przemyśl

Dan Snow speaks with historian Alexander Watson about the Siege of Przemyśl, the longest and bloodiest siege of World War I. Cut off by Russian armies in the winter of 1914-1915, the Austro-Hungarian garrison endured brutal famine conditions, eating bread cut with sawdust and boiling horses to the bone. Doomed by the vanity of their generals, the defenders held out until a final, desperate breakout charge. The episode draws on Watson's book 'The Fortress' to recount this harrowing, often-overlooked chapter of the war.