Title from web page. James William Barker, Don Meehan, C. Conrad Cady, Ian Beyts, Don Hartman, Joseph Scott Barbarino; narrated by Jeremy Renner. Originally aired as a mini-series on the History Channel. Special features: Deleted scenes; characters in depth: Churchill, Hitler, FDR, Stalin, Patton, MacArthur; Featurettes: How technology changed war; Treaty of Versailles, Being a general.
Summary:
Adolf Hitler. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Benito Mussolini. Winston Churchill. Charles de Gaulle. George Patton. Before they were the giants of WWII, they were infantrymen and privates in WWI, the war to end all wars. The story of the devastating three decades of twentieth-century world war is told through the eyes of the men whose characters were forged in the trenches before they commanded a world on the brink of disaster.
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