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Britain's Great War

Season 1 Episode 4: At the Eleventh Hour

Jeremy describes how the country came to the very brink of defeat in the last year of the war. Grieving parents held seances to contact their dead sons and surgeons battled to rebuild the faces of the wounded.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 War Comes to Britain

1. War Comes to Britain

Aired: Jan 27, 2014

The early stages of the war and fear of invasion. How Britain expanded its sm...

Episode 2 The War Machine

2. The War Machine

Aired: Feb 3, 2014

Explores aspects of the economic restructuring of Britain between 1915-18 to ...

Episode 3 The Darkest Hour

3. The Darkest Hour

Aired: Feb 10, 2014

Jeremy describes Germany's attempt to starve the country into submission - co...

Episode 4 At the Eleventh Hour

4. At the Eleventh Hour

Aired: Feb 17, 2014

Jeremy describes how the country came to the very brink of defeat in the last...

Appearances

Creators

Julian Carey

Julian CareyDirector

Info about Britain's Great War

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:War, Documentary, History