Written by Correlli Barnett.
A twenty-six-part history of the 1914-1918 War.

The needs of war bring about a social and technological revolution on the home fronts. In Britain Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions, faces the colossal task of modernising British industry.

With the voices of: Sir Michael Redgrave as Narrator, Sir Ralph Richardson as Haig, Emlyn Williams as Lloyd George; Marius Goring, Cyril Luckham, Sebastian Shaw.
Theme music by Wilfred Josephs
Played by the BBC Northern Orchestra
Conducted by George Hurst
Series produced in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Commission
A BBC Tonight production
(First transmission on BBC-2, July 18)