Written by Correlli Barnett.
A twenty-six-part history of the 1914-18 War.

The massive efforts and losses of 1916 have brought victory no nearer for any of the belligerents and each surveys the ruin of the year in frustration.

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 29, 1964
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