Multimedia Collection
Explosion
(The Great War series)
VHS
60 minutes
D521 .G741 1998 v.1
Episode One. This episode on the First World War begins with a sweeping look at the conditions and events that caused the cataclysm to unfold. Why did a Serbian fanatic's assassination of Archduke Ferdinand (heir to the Austrian throne) in Sarajavo engulf the world in war? How did the rise of labor and women's demands for equal rights contribute to the unsettling unease throughout Europe in 1914? And how could those in power take so great a gamble, yet have so little understanding of the war machine they were setting into motion? Through original and vintage film footage, rare still photos, letters and diaries, and the voices of leading actors, The Great War begins to shed new light on how the fuse was lit that led to the first man-made catastrophe of the 20th century.
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