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The Great War and the shaping of the 20th century

Explores the effect of World War I on the twentieth century.

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  • "Great War and the shaping of the twentieth century"
  • "Great War and the shaping of the twentieth century"@en
  • "Explosion"
  • "War without end"
  • "Hatred and hunger"
  • "Stalemate"
  • "Collapse"
  • "Mutiny"
  • "Total war"
  • "Slaughter"
  • "Shaping of the 20th century"
  • "Shaping of the 20th century"@en

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  • "Explores the effect of World War I on the twentieth century."@en
  • "Explores the effect of World War I on the twentieth century."
  • "A detailed history of the causes and events and legacy of the First World War. Starting with the culture of the 19th century to trace the roots of the conflict, it looks at its cultural and political effects, through the rise of Communism and Fascism, the Cold War, and the atomic age and the conflicts in the Middle East and Bosnia, to prove that World War One was not "the war to end all wars"."@en
  • "The Great War, the World War of 1914 to 1918, was the first major catastrophe of the 20th century. Never had so many nations taken up arms at a single time nor had the battlefield ever been so vast. Nearly everyone suffered and became a soldier in one way or another."@en
  • "Explores the effect of World War I on the twentieth century. The World War of 1914-1918, the Great War, was the first of the man-made disasters of the twentieth century. In many ways it was without precedent. Never had the battlefield been so vast, whether in the trenches, in the sky, or on and in the seas. Never had a war reached so deeply into the lives of people so far away from the battlefield. The shock waves generated by this cataclysmic event are felt to this day, as this dramatic narrative makes vividly clear. Here is. presented a history of world war in a new way. The military flow of the conflict - from the invasion of Belgium in the summer of 1914 to the collapse of Germany in the autumn of 1918 - is followed throughout. But these epic events are rendered with fresh insights by the interweaving of the cultural history of the time - the hopes and dreams, the ideas and aspirations, the exhilaration and despair, both of those remote from power and of those who led them. This is a. journey into the intense personal experiences of people trying to make sense of war on a scale the world had never seen. Like the acclaimed television series that it accompanies, The Great War pays special attention to the troubling aftermath of the war: the emergence of new nations amid old and festering problems; how the victims and survivors dealt with loss and disfigurement, guilt and hatred; and the terrible legacy of brutality that has marked so much of the. twentieth century."
  • "Explores the effect of World War I on the twentieth century. The World War of 1914-1918, the Great War, was the first of the man-made disasters of the twentieth century. In many ways it was without precedent. Never had the battlefield been so vast, whether in the trenches, in the sky, or on and in the seas. Never had a war reached so deeply into the lives of people so far away from the battlefield. The shock waves generated by this cataclysmic event are felt to this day, as this dramatic narrative makes vividly clear. Here is. presented a history of world war in a new way. The military flow of the conflict - from the invasion of Belgium in the summer of 1914 to the collapse of Germany in the autumn of 1918 - is followed throughout. But these epic events are rendered with fresh insights by the interweaving of the cultural history of the time - the hopes and dreams, the ideas and aspirations, the exhilaration and despair, both of those remote from power and of those who led them. This is a. journey into the intense personal experiences of people trying to make sense of war on a scale the world had never seen. Like the acclaimed television series that it accompanies, The Great War pays special attention to the troubling aftermath of the war: the emergence of new nations amid old and festering problems; how the victims and survivors dealt with loss and disfigurement, guilt and hatred; and the terrible legacy of brutality that has marked so much of the. twentieth century."@en
  • "Examines the "war to end all wars", from the seeds of its inception to the aftermath, which left a legacy for the conflicts to come."@en
  • "The Great War, the World War of 1914 to 1918, was the first major catastrophy of the 20th century. Never had so many nations taken up arms at a single time nor had the battlefield ever been so vast. Nearly everyone suffered and became a soldier in one way or another."@en

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  • "Documentary television programs"
  • "Documentary television programs"@en
  • "Historical television programs"@en
  • "Nonfiction television programs"
  • "Nonfiction television programs"@en
  • "Television mini-series"@en
  • "History"@en
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  • "The Great War and the shaping of the 20th century"
  • "The Great War and the shaping of the 20th century"@en
  • "The Great War : and the shaping of the 20th century"
  • "The great war and the shaping of the 20th century"
  • "The great war and the shaping of the 20th century"@en
  • "The Great War : and the shaping of the 20th century"
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