Documentary - 290 mins
Audience - General
Classification - Exempt
Region - 0
Format - PAL
Language - English

Product weight 350g

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Disc One - The Boer War

When Britain went to war against the Boers in October 1899, the British public expected the fighting to be over by Christmas. As it turned out, The Boer War, in Kipling's famous phrase, gave the British "no end of a lesson". Using accounts of the soldiers who fought in this bitter and bloody clash of arms and remarkable contemporary photographs, this programme tells the story of Britain's last great Imperial war.

Disc Two - The Great War - The Story of WW1 1914-1918

These new and updated visual accounts of the first world war combine a riveting story line with much newly gathered information and truly devastating pictures of the eerie landscape of war on the grandest scale. It is a compelling exploration of warfare at its most horrific.

Disc Three - The History of World War Two

Britain's response to Germany's Blitzkrieg invasion of Poland in 1939, was the British Expeditionary Force, sent to Europe to prevent the Germans following their successful airborne invasion of the Low Countries, with an armoured assault against France. The BEF's enforced, heroic withdrawal at Dunkirk left the RAF, under Sir Hugh Dowding, to win the Battle of Britain and postpone invasion plans indefinitely. As World War Two entered the second, decisive phase, the British Army showed its teeth at El Alamein where Montgomery's victory halted Rommel's armoured sweep through North Africa. Further East Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union proved suicidal: German surrender at Stalingrad left Russia poised to punch into the heart of the Reich.

In the Far East Japan followed their pre-emptive strike at Pearl Harbour with rapid territorial gains before being pushed back from Midway by American naval might. In Europe, RAF Bomber Command blitzed German cities as the D-Day invasion of Normandy was taking shape. By April 1945, American and Russian forces had Berlin surrounded - the liberation of Europe was complete.

From the Back Cover

Also includes: Interactive Menus, Scene Selections, Stills Gallery

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