Written by Barrie Pitt and Antony Jay.
A 26-part history of the 1914-1918 war.

How the Navy faced the challenge of the Imperial German Navy in the opening months of the war.

With the voices of Sir Michael Redgrave as Narrator, Sir Ralph Richardson as Haig, Emlyn Williams as Lloyd George and Marius Goring, Cyril Luckham, Sebastian Shaw

Series produced in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Commission