How WWI Brought Total War To The Home Front | Great War In Numbers | War Stories
The First World War showed the true horrors of armed conflict in the 20th century. But these horrors weren’t just on the front line. The home front had become all encompassed in a foreign war for the first time, with the lives of those left behind utterly changed forever. But what was daily life like for those who experienced it? And what great changes did war bring to civilian life?
A new kind of world and a new kind of war. The Great War In Numbers tells the story of ammunition, guns, ships, aircraft and men that will die in their millions. A war fought by calculating generals for which no cost is too high.
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00:00 – Start
02:28 – Recruitment & Conscription
10:27 – Women’s Lives
15:17 – State Regulation
22:20 – Cost Of War
29:12 – Total War Hits Britain
33:25 – Feeding The Home Front
39:36 – British Naval Blockade