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Fourteen stories - one catastrophic event! The First World War is widely regarded as one of the most catastrophic events of the 20th century. In just four years, millions of people died, four large parts of Europe were destroyed and shook the entire world order to its foundations. In eight episodes this drama series tells the story of the largest and most devastating war that humanity has ever experienced. This told on the basis of 14 unique and never before stories by people who experienced the war itself. ... The heroes in this unique docu-series are not generals and politicians, but the soldiers in the trenches, the women who toiled in factories replacing the labor of men, the children whom the war at the same time appears as an adventure and nightmare, and not least the voluntary nurses who dedicated themselves committed to the endless stream of wounded and dead. Based on diaries and letters tells outlines this drama series impressive, heartbreaking and poignant fate of this war. The series follows people from eight countries, each in their own way, experience the war. Sympathetic and in the original language embodied by actors from Russia, Austria, Britain, France, Italy, New Zealand and Germany. 14 diaries of World War I look gives the viewer showed a never before the First World War. With the drama of an epic television series and masterfully used instruments World War comes back to life.