Written by John Terraine.
A twenty-six-part history of the 1914-18 War.

With the collapse of Russia, the war focuses on the Western Front, a deadlocked 'zone of madness' such as the world has never seen.

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
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, October 4, 1964)