Posted on 07/06/2007 2:01:07 PM PDT by Lorianne
Wow. Only $50. The theme music is running through my mind as I read this. This documentary was probably one of the best. It came on TV at a time when it really wasn’t expected - there was no pretext for it. The British have always impressed me with their historical expertise, from Gibbon to their TV documentaries.
Order being placed now...
Probably the best documentary ever produced, followed by Victory at Sea in close second place. I’ve got the soundtrack on CD and listen to it at work. Powerful and moving!
Me too. My mom was a 13-year old Londoner during The Blitz and she watch the whole series with me back in the ‘70’s. She cried a lot through the whole thing...remembering when the British soldiers coming back from Dunkirk cheered all the little children of London at the railway station being evacuated to the countryside.
I have the DVD collection...fantastic.
An excellent write up concerning the World at War series. Absolutely the best WW II documentary of all times, bar none. And all 26 hours are worth watching.
It will be interesting to see how Ken Burns’ forthcoming film on this subject measures up.
That was a good series, I remember whne WOR-TV From New York aired it (we had it on our cable system) in the late 1970’s when I was 11 or 12. First time I really saw graphic pics and film of the Holocaust, it really put a lot of fear in me. I have a few tapes of it myself.
Of that 50 million dead were 20 million Russians and a good chunk of that 20 million were from the Russians themselves. The Russian soldier had the rather unique circumstance of having two sets of guns trained on him. The Germans in front of him and the NKVD and commissars from behind. If you had been captured by the Germans your chances of survival were very slim but if you did and you returned home to the loving arms of Uncle Joe you were shot or imprisoned anyway.
I have noticed the term one of the only used more and more frequently.
Can you tell me what it means?
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