Any else see Jeremy Paxman’s Britain’s Great War?
“Edward Gray cried at about the war he’d done so much to prevent” (in fact Gray played the main role in forcing the war through against the will of the people, Parliament and even the majority of the Cabinet).
“Germany planned to conquer Russia and France and create an evil empire from the channel to the Pacific, so what choice did we have?” (errrr, how big was the British Empire at this time?)
“The British and French marched bravely forwards towards the much larger German army” (so the French army was lighweight, then?).
“German names were no longer acceptable” (but lets not mention the British royal family, eh, Jezza?)
The same old pack of lies we’ve been fed for 100 years.
As Blackadder might have said, there was only one thing wrong with this programme: it was bollocks.