Written by Ed Rollins and Correlli Barnett.
A twenty-six-part history of the 1914-18 War.

Throughout nearly the whole of the four years of the war. the British have been waging a grim fight against the Turkish armies in Palestine and Mesopotamia. Under relentless pressure. Turkish resistance crumbles.

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.
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 productionFirst transmission on BBC-2, November 8, 1964