2nd programme

"43 minutes in. Paxman to camera.

"The war was dreadful, and it was bloody, but unless Britain was prepared to see the rest of Europe turned into some enormous German colony, it had to be fought, and most British people saw that."

""The war was dreadful, and it was bloody, but unless Britain was prepared to see the rest of Europe turned into some enormous German colony, it had to be fought, and most British people saw that."

Previous quotes,
"Now war had broken out, almost everyone backed it."

"Most people seemed to have accepted that the war had to be fought."

" Lord Kitchener's appeal for volunteers in the early days of the war had been so successful that lines at recruitment offices snaked for blocks down city streets."

"Throughout it all, the resolve of the British people did not weaken."