I'm quite well read on the First World (Great) War and I enjoyed these three episodes a great deal. Although I was not there (on the battlefield) myself, the three episodes smacked of reality. They nicely drew on the experiences of individual soldiers (Paddy Kennedy, for example, is a major figure in Martin Middlebrook's classic work The First Day on the Somme and his story can found in print there) and the somewhat larger military picture was provided with some very nice computer graphics that added to the information but did not misrepresent or distort the real story. Later history (events since 1918) has obscured some things from the current view, but this war was a REALLY BIG DEAL for Great Britain and it and the subsequent events (political and otherwise) are in important ways responsible for how the Edwardian (Victorian) UK became the UK of today.
Review of Our World War
