A View of Europe in the Twentieth Century
A television history in 13 parts Written and narrated by John Terraine
With personal comments by Peter Ustinov
5: This Generation has No Future The crises come to fruition and we witness the first of the two catastrophes in this century which were to drain away all Europe's might. We examine the working out of the new 20th-century style of war - war conducted with all the technological apparatus of the First Industrial Revolution.
This is a war of mass-production, of mass-armies - and, naturally, of mass-casualties. It is a huge act of attempted European suicide, and when it ends after four-and-a-half years of unprecedented slaughter, well may a despairing German officer say: ' This generation has no future, and deserves none. Anyone who belongs to it lives no more.'
Supervising film editor ALLAN TYRER Film editor. LES NEWMAN
Associate producer BRIAN LEWIS Producer PETER MORLEY
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