Written by John Terraine.
A twenty-six-part history of the 1914-1918 War.

In an attempt to win the initiative the Allies launch offensives around the whole perimeter of the war. The British fight the five months' Battle of the Somme.

with the voices of Sir Michael Redgrave as Narrator, Sir Ralph Richardson as Douglas 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 22, 1964)
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