First World War [videorecording] The First World War a Wark Clements, Hamilton Films production in association with South Star and Channel 4 ; producers, Marcus Kiggell ... [et al.] ; series narrated and produced by Jonathan Lewis. - 2006 - 4 videodiscs (ca. 503 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
"A Major channel four series."--Container. Based on the book by Professor Hew Strachan. Off-air recording: broadcast by ABC TV in ten parts: pt.1, 7 December 2005 -- pt.2, 14 December -- pt.3, 21 December -- pt.4, 28 December 2005 -- pt.5, 4 January 2006 -- pt.6, 11 January -- pt.7, 18 January -- pt.8, 25 January -- pt.9, 1 February -- pt.10, 8 February 2006. Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 2003. Subtitle from container.
[Disc.1] 1. To arms 1914 --2. Under the eagle 1914-1915 3. Global war 1914-1916 --4. Jihad 1914-1916 -- [Disc.2] 5. Shackled to a corpse 1914-1916 --6. Breaking the deadlock 1915-1917 -- [Disc.3] 7. Blockade 1916-1917 --8. Revolution 1917 -- [Disc.4] 9. Germany's last gamble 1918 --10. War without end.
Ten-part series offers insight and analysis to provide a coherent and strategic military narrative. Places World War I in its proper global context, dispelling the conventional myth of the war as a European conflict only. The human tragedy is placed in a wider political and military context, going beyond the Western Front to encompass the entire world.
World War--1914-1918
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