World War II Up close and personal
DVD - 2021
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.
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- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Personal narratives
Lectures
Educational films
Documentary films
Historical films - Published
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Chantilly, VA :
The Great Courses
[2021]
- Language
- English
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- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: History ; Subtopic: Modern history"--Cover.
"Course number 8152"--Container and disc labels.
24 lectures lasting approximately 29 minutes each.
Originally produced in 2021.
Program content: ©2021.
"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. - Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (693 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm)
- Format
- DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation.
- Bibliography
- Accompanying course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-174).
- ISBN
- 9781644651087
- Disc 1. Hitler and the Nazi Youth ; Japanese soldiers in Nanjing ; Panzer leaders who changed warfare ; Jews inside the Warsaw Group ; 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 yes and ears of war correspondents ; Casualty stories of the atomic age ; A Nuremberg interpreter, a Tokyo judge ; Survivor memories : reliving the Holocaust.