Multimedia Collection
Total War
(The Great War series)
VHS
60 minutes
D521 .G741 1998 v.2
Episode Three. This episode shows that by 1915, the conflict had spread across boundaries between continents and peoples, becoming a global war - a fact grimly confirmed by the unlikely battles between Turks and Australians on the Turkish cliffs of Gallipoli. The Great War chronicles the lives of very different people: a youing British woman who endured the death of all the young men in her life; a West African soldier who went to France to prove himself a warrior; a plucky Australian who thought he was headed for France, but ended up in Turkey; and the brave Englishwomen who traded their domestic lives for jobs in weapons factories. The episode concludes with the telling of the first genocide of the 20th century - the ultimate form of total war against civilians - and the fact that the mass murder of Armenian civilians planted seeds in the mind of a young German soldier: Adolf Hitler.
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