The World at War

The World at War is a 26 episode series about World War II, produced by Thames Television for ITV and first screened in the UK during 1973-1974. The narrator was Sir Laurence Olivier. more »

Narrator (describing the setting of the Western desert campaign): This land was made for war. As glass resists the bite of vitriol, so this hard and calcined earth rejects the battle's hot, corrosive impact. Here is no nubile, girlish land; no green and virginal countryside for war to violate. This land is hard. Inviolable.

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