World War II : a military and social history.
A set of thirty lectures examing the greatest conflict in human history, the Second World War.
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
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[Springfield, Va.] :
Teaching Co.,
[1998]
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| Edition: | Libraray ed. |
| Series: | Great courses (DVD)
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Table of Contents:
- Part. 1: Disc 1. lecture 1. The origins of the second world war; lecture 2. Hitler's challenge to the international system, 1933-1936; lecture 3. The failure of the international system; lecture 4. The coming war; lecture 5. Blitzkrieg
- Disc 2. lecture 6. The German offensive in the west; lecture 7. "Their finest hour": Britain alone; lecture 8. The battle of Britain; lecture 9. Hitler moves east; lecture 10. The Germans before Moscow.
- Part 2: Disc 3. lecture 11. The war in Asia; lecture 12. The Japanese gamble; lecture 13. The height of Japanese power; lecture 14. Turning the tide in the Pacific: Midway and Guadalcanal; lecture 15. The war in north Africa
- Disc 4. lecture 16. War in the Mediterranean: the invasion of Sicily and Italy; lecture 17. Stalingrad: the turning point on the eastern front; lecture 18. Eisenhower and Operation Overlord; lecture 19. D-Day to Paris; lecture 20. Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge.
- Part 3: Disc 5. lecture 21. Advance across the Pacific; lecture 22. Turning point in the southwest Pacific: Leyte Gulf and the Philippines; lecture 23. The final drive for Japan: Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the fire-bombing of Tokyo; lecture 24. War in the air; lecture 25. Hitler's new order in Europe
- Disc 6. lecture 26. "This man's army"; lecture 27. Daily life, culture, and society in wartime; lecture 28. The race for Berlin; lecture 29. Truman, the bomb, and the end of the war in the Pacific; lecture 30. The costs of the war.