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

Since the outbreak of war Britain has been creating a Citizen army to replace its tiny regular force, now practically wiped out. Plans are laid to launch an offensive on the Somme.

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, August 15, 1964
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