Exploring the enduring impact of World War One
Marking the centenary of
World War One, historian David Reynolds explores the enduring shadow the
conflict has cast over Britain and Europe in the century that followed.
Travelling to locations across Europe, from Slovenia to the Sudetenland,
Belfast to Berlin, David Reynolds traces the war’s legacy, arguing that it
unleashed forces we still grapple with today. This remarkable series also looks
again at how the experience of war haunted the generation who lived through it,
in particular the soldiers who survived it – dynamic characters such as Benito
Mussolini, Eamon de Valera, Philippe Petain, James Ramsey MacDonald and Thomas
Masaryk. Reynolds examines how these men shaped the peace that followed war,
often in unpredictable ways.
