Britain’s Great War
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- Episode
- Episode 4 - The Eleventh Hour
- Broadcast Info
- 2014 (59 mins)
- Description
- In the final part of his landmark series on how the First World War affected the lives of the British people - and created what we know as modern Britain - Jeremy Paxman describes how the country comes to the very brink of defeat in the last year of the war. Grieving parents hold seances to contact their dead sons. Surgeons battle to rebuild the faces of the wounded. A maverick MP tries to pin the blame for the crisis on a conspiracy of sexual deviants in government. Dramatically, the tide of battle turns and exhausted Britons find themselves weeping for joy as the armistice is signed. The nation begins to count the cost of four years of war. There have been some surprising winners as well as losers.
- Genre
- Medicine; 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/85209 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)