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In this film, historian David Reynolds argues that the Great War made national identity a matter of "us" versus "them," and he traces the recurrent struggle between nationalist uprisings and empire-building since 1914. New nation states hastily patched together from the ruins of the Habsburg Empire destabilized the whole European continent for much of the twentieth century. However, the British Empire strengthened after the war and bonds with Dominions...
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In the second film of his series on the Great War's impact, historian David Reynolds looks at how the conflict gave birth to an age of turbulent mass democracy. In the immediate aftermath of war, monarchies toppled, the people rose up, and three iconic leaders-Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson and Benito Mussolini-emerged with competing visions of power that polarized much of continental Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. In Britain, the socialist Labor...
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In this series, historian David Reynolds examines how World War I haunted the generation who lived through it and shaped the peace that followed. In this film, he shows how the common perception of the Great War as futile slaughter has developed after the Second World War and, in particular, through popular depictions in the 1960s. For many British people, the sacrifice would not have been in vain if the Great War proved to be "the war to end war."...
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