A View of Europe in the Twentieth Century
A television history in 13 parts
With personal comments by Peter Ustinov

The stark reality of totalitarianism inside Europe was defeating the idealists at the League of Nations.
'Form! Riflemen form! Ready, be ready to meet the storm!' was the rallying cry when Britain was threatened by invasion in the 19th century. As the 1930s passed by, it was even more clear that a storm was on its way, but for many Europeans there was no rallying cry. Hitler's Germany declared its hand - but who would oppose it? Hardly Soviet Communism, in the full throes of the Stalinist purges. Democracy - disunited as it was? Strangely, in a country usually off the main stream of events, Europeans found their cause: their spirit 'would find its frontier on the Spanish front. Its body in a rag-tag army.'
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The struggle for Spain: page 5