History of World War II

Season 1

Only twenty years after the Great War the war to end all wars, the nations of Europe once more faced each other across the battlefield. Technology had moved on though, and this time there would be no stalemate. The Blitzkrieg tactics of the Nazis, the area bombing strategies of the Allies and territorial aspirations of an industrialized Japan meant that this was going to be total war.

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S1 E1 - Second World War - Part 1
September 1, 2004
1 h 15 min
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World War Two was the greatest conflict of all history, only a generation after the first "War to end all Wars". But when Hitler's Germany smashed into Poland in September 1939, it became clear that the new European war would be no repeat of the 1914-18 stalemate. The Germans were now the masters of a revolutionary "lighting war".
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S1 E2 - Second World War - Part 2
September 1, 2004
1 h 19 min
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The German invasion of Russia in June 1941 was intended as Hitler's ultimate triumph. Instead, it turned into his greatest disaster as World War Two became became truly global. But in December 1941, Hitler's divisions stood poised at the gates of Moscow, as, faraway in the Pacific, his Japanese allies stunned America with her fateful attack on Pearl Harbor.
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