1914, the war revolution [videorecording] / produced & directed by Paul Bradshaw ; editor, Laurence Rees

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: [London] : BBC Active, c2006.Description: 1 videodisc (60min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Nineteen-fourteen, the war revolution
Subject(s): Online resources: Narrator, Bill Paterson.Summary: "As the armies of Europe mobilised to prepare for The Great War, military experts predicted that this would be a war fought by cavalry. Why then did it end up being fought in the trenches? Why was this the first - and last - trench war the world would see? Timewatch discovers that the answers to these questions lie not so much with Generals and politicians, but with technology: the train, tinned food, the telephone, the wireless, barbed wire, hydraulically buffered artillery guns and the machine gun."--Container.
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CD CD MAIN LIBRARY Main Library Multimedia Collection MAIN LIBRARY Main Library Multimedia Collection D639 . S2N56 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) DVD 1 Available 1000241703

Broadcast as an episode of the BBC television series Timewatch.

Narrator, Bill Paterson.

"As the armies of Europe mobilised to prepare for The Great War, military experts predicted that this would be a war fought by cavalry. Why then did it end up being fought in the trenches? Why was this the first - and last - trench war the world would see? Timewatch discovers that the answers to these questions lie not so much with Generals and politicians, but with technology: the train, tinned food, the telephone, the wireless, barbed wire, hydraulically buffered artillery guns and the machine gun."--Container.

DVD ; colour recording system: PAL.

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