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

Field-Marshal Haig launches a massive counter-offensive at Amiens, and, as fighting flares along the whole of the Western Front, the Germany Army faces defeat in the field.

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 production
(First transmission on BBC-2, November 1, 1964)