I recommend that everyone, especially younger people, watch an amazing WW2 documentary that will be on PBS starting on Sunday night. If Ken Burns, who is a terrific director/producer, lives up to his previous documentaries, (The Civil War being among his best), we should have an insiders look into an enormous part of our world history. And a look at a war that really was necessary! It took Ken Burns over 6 years to put this documentary together. He had decided to do it after hearing two things; that over 1,000 WW2 veterans a day were dying and that young people thought we fought with the Germans against Russia!
from PBS: THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, which tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns.
The series explores the most intimate human dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in history — a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America — and demonstrates that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
Throughout the series, the indelible experience of combat is brought vividly to life as veterans describe what it was like to fight and kill and see men die at places like Monte Cassino and Anzio and Omaha Beach; the Hürtgen Forest and the Vosges Mountains and the Ardennes; and on the other side of the world at Guadalcanal and Tarawa and Saipan; Peleliu and the Philippine Sea and Okinawa. In all of the battle scenes, dramatic historical footage and photographs are combined with extraordinarily realistic sound effects to give the film a terrifying, visceral immediacy.
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