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The Great War: Episode 20: Only War, Nothing But War

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Episode 20: Only War, Nothing But War

Only War, Nothing But War

BBC Two - The Great War, Only War, Nothing But War

The war had evolved from an localised conflict to a 'total' war involving entire nations.

Classic BBC series. The war has evolved from an old-fashioned localised conflict to an all-engulfing 'total' war involving entire nations.

Exploring how the war had evolved from an old-fashioned military conflict to a war engulfing whole nations, fought with passionate and irrational hatred. But out of 'total war' grew modern ideas of a state's responsibility for its citizens, and the concept of managing an economy as one vast business. Whatever the final outcome of the war, the pre-1914 world had come to an end, and a new era was dawning.

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Knowledge, drama, comedy and the arts for a broad adult audience.

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

Classic BBC documentary series about the world-shattering events of 1914-1918

Classic BBC documentary series, first broadcast in 1964, narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave and with the voices of Sir Ralph Richardson and Marius Goring

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