A twenty-six-part history.

With the intention of bleeding France to death, Germany attacks the sacred fortress town of Verdun, and the two nations become locked in the "grimmest racial feud in the history of human savagery."

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
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, Aug. 8)