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The focus on this set is clearly the war in Europe (only one disc, Horror in the East, is dedicated to the war with Japan) as told from an even-handed British perspective: interviews with German citizens make it understandable how Hitler appealed to a shattered and defeated nation, for example, and the The Road to War scrutinizes how a British government was caught unprepared for a re-armed Germany bent on domination. The collection is filled with poignantly fascinating moments, such as when an aging American veteran revisits the Omaha Beach he stormed on D-Day, and meets the elderly German who, as a teenager, was defending that section of the beach with his machine gun, or footage of Hitler's early political speeches, raging promises of things to come.
Roughly chronologically arranged, the set starts with The Nazis: A Warning from History, and works its way through all facets of the war, including the legacy of the Holocaust. (Some of the titles were previously released as single DVDs.) The presentation is particularly impressive. Each series has its own style: Dunkirk is a drama-documentary structured like a miniseries and reenactments are deftly interwoven with archival footage in a convincing motif. In War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin, German and Russian veterans recall with chilling candor their particular universe of battle, and rare color combat footage combined with newly declassified Soviet documents offer new perspectives on the subject. The collection succeeds brilliantly in making it clear to a modern-day viewer what it was really like to live through those times.
For the war buff, the history enthusiast, the educator, or someone looking for a gift for any of the above, the BBC History of World War II is a title to consider. Even dedicated viewers of the History Channel will find something new and fascinating here. --Dan Vancini
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| MANUFACTURER: | BBC |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | War Documentaries |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 12 |
| UPC: | 794051224125 |
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Customer Reviews of BBC History of World War II
Superb One of the finest things ever to grace the dvd format. <
>If you are looking for the ultimate WWII COLLECTION then you have found it. <
>An earlier review makes refrence to it being heavy on the British footage. <
>That is because THE BBC is BRITISH. <
>If ABC would have put this together then trust me you wouldnt see a Brit in sight. <
>As for Stanley Dalton Jnr who ripped into Monty. <
>Let me remind you that because your President didnt listen to the much wiser smarter Churchill then Russia was given free reign and despite many warnings from Churchill' they raped and tortured millions of Germans. <
>Monty was a WWII Hero and did what needed to be done. <
>If you really were a WWII student STANLEY you would never go on a dvd review site' and start slamming people who helped save the world from speaking GERMAN. <
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The British perspective on WWII
The individual BBC documentaries collected here are excellent throughout. The set provides high production values with a mix of documentary footage and many extensive re-enactments.
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>However the topics are decidedly British: for instance the war in the Pacific focuses on Burma and the Indian fighting men in the British army. You will be looking in vain for coverage of the American/Japanese island warfare. On the other hand the desperate British retreat from Dunkirk is covered much more extensively than I have ever seen before.
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>For me the the stand-outs were "Battlefields" (El Alamein, Monte Cassino, Operation Market Garden etc.) and "The Battle of the Atlantic" about the U-boat war.
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>If you are looking for an introductory, panoramic and largely chronological overview, better go for "The World at War".
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>Nevertheless this BBC set is very much worth the money and for all the topics it presents you will feel as if you traded up, no matter what you may have seen before.
BBC History of World War II
I started collecting WW II material in 1973. Out of all of the WW II books and DVDs that I own this series is the pinnacle of my World II DVD libary.
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>The only thing that I had wished was the fact was stressed that Field Marshall Sir Bernard Law Montgomery was a good soldier but a rotten human being. As General George Patton so aptly described Monty "he is a tired little fart" is a richly deserved personality synopsis.
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>However being a British production it's understandable how this fact has been glossed over.