It all started with a gunshot in 1914, the assassination of an archduke in Austria-Hungary… and it didn’t end until a nuclear explosion in 1945. For 31 years, the world was at war – and no one was spared from the carnage. This is the story of one generation, who came of age during the First World War, and would lead their nations in the Second. These are the men who would go on to shape the modern world – names like Patton, Churchill, Hitler Mussolini, MacArthur, Stalin , Roosevelt – but first, they’d have to survive… The World Wars.