Britain’s Great War
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- Episode
- Episode 1 - War Comes to Britain
- Broadcast Info
- 2014 (59 mins)
- Description
- In the first of a four part landmark history series of how the First World War affected the lives of the British people - and created what we know as modern Britain - Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the dramatic early stages of the war: from stunned disbelief to the mass recruitment of volunteer soldiers. Fear of invasion grips the country, Boy Scouts guard bridges, spies are suspected everywhere. For the first time British civilians are fired on by enemy ships and bombed from the air. Jeremy meets a 105 year old eyewitness to the shelling of Hartlepool, who describes how she thought the Germans had landed. Total war has come to Britain
- Genre
- History; Philosophy and Ethics; Social Science
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The Open University, "Britain’s Great War". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/85186 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)