Format:
Video disc
Title:
World War II : up close and personal
Other title(s):
Up close and personal
Up close & personal
ISBN:
9781644651087
Edition:
Widescreen.
Publication:
Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2021]
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (693 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm)
Series title(s):
General Note:
24 lectures (approximately 30 minutes each).
Program content: ©2021.
"Course no. 8152"--Container.
"This content, including some wartime documentary footage, includes some descriptions and images that may be disturbing to the viewer. The content may not be suitable for minors or other audiences"--Preliminary sequence.
Contents:
disc 1. Hitler and the Nazi Youth ; Japanese soldiers in Nanjing ; Panzer leaders who changed warfare ; Jews inside the Warsaw Ghetto ; The "small acts" of the French Resistance ; A child and a pilot in the London Blitz -- disc 2. The besieged at Leningrad ; The captured and pursued in the Philippines ; The US Home Front as a secret weapon ; James Michener in the South Pacific ; Masters of death in Nazi concentration camps ; A "Red Tolstoy's" vision at Stalingrad -- disc 3. "The bomber will always get through" ; The Tuskegee Airmen and "the experiment" ; US submariners : "a breed apart" ; An American diplomat in the Vatican ; Americans in Britain : countdown to D-Day ; Commanders at the Battle of the Bulge -- disc 4. General Slim and the Forgotten Fight ; The kamikazes and the duty to die ; The eyes and ears of war correspondents ; Casualty stories of the atomic age ; A Nuremberg interpreter, a Tokyo judge ; Survivor memories : reliving the Holocaust.
Summary:
A series of lectures presenting the experiences of soldiers, officers, pilots, non-combatants, and war correspondents caught on the front lines of World War II, presented by Keith Huxen, Korean War Oral History Project Director at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.
Dr. Keith Huxen, a historian and project director at The Henry M. Jackson Foundation, takes you into the story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. From the icy front lines of Soviet Russia to the bombing campaigns against Britain to the fall of the Philippines, these 24 engrossing lectures take you into the shoes of soldiers, sailors, pilots, war correspondents, and citizens struggling to survive a war-torn world.
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