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I honestly don't think most Japanese understood the vastness of the territories the allies controlled, the amount of resources in them, the number of people in them, or most of all the industrial capacity the allies possessed.
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Re: I'm rewatching The World At War.
So what's the ultimate WW2 documentary, and why is it better than "World at War"?Originally posted by Oerdin
Without a doubt this is the penultimate WW2 documentary"I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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I'm tempted to do the same thing. Good game, if not my favourite PI game.Originally posted by Oerdin
This has motivated me to play a game of Hearts of Iron 2 complete with Doomsday and Armageddon expansions. The Panzers shall roll across Europe!
Incredible that the whole series is online free of charge btw.
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Didn't watch it, but I bet it's all lies and has no word on British aggressors being responsible for everything
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Re: Re: I'm rewatching The World At War.
Point taken.Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
So what's the ultimate WW2 documentary, and why is it better than "World at War"?
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I should watch again. I forget the ending.
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Just read the "WWII as RTS" thing for a summary
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BOOM!Originally posted by Wezil
I should watch again. I forget the ending.
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they show it on UKTV history a lot, i think i must of watched the whole thing by now. it's especially interesting hearing the recollections of people who were there and played a part in shaping the events that they describe.
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Yeah the first ones are very informative and nicely done, then you get lots of interviews, in depth, they're nice. There's some chilling interviews with some of them nazis and stuff. Wow. Those are the big ones for me. And yeah, the final solution ones are just so ominous it really squeezes your heart, takes a strangle hold and tries to suffocate it. Very disturbing.
There's also nice way of showing the strategies and they make their play to play interesting, yet informative only. There's no show element there, which makes it really special. You don't want to put any extra flavor or grandiose, because the theaters of that war don't need any, just show what happened, that's enough and the most powerful way to display it. You keep wondering, how the hell did this thing ever happen? And it happened in our lifetime sort of, because the generation that was in it is still alive. How the hell do you do that, and then continue business as usual? Well it wasn't business as usual, but you get the point...
I'm fairly strong mentally, but I don't know if I could accept that. All the slaughter and just ****ing pure evil of man, you try to be positive after that.In da butt.
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Re: I'm rewatching The World At War.
What's the ultimate WWII documentary?Originally posted by Oerdin
this is the penultimate WW2 documentaryI came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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When i first watched this series my thought that i actually knew something about WW2 vanished quickly and i wanted to find out more. These 2 books did go well along with the series:
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by journalist William L. Shirer
There actually was one funny paragraph in this book; around 1937 Nazi party realized that bureaucracy had risen rapidly during their reign and something needed to be done. Solution: they set up a committee to find out what could be done
. And people still think Nazi's were super-duper-organized.
The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh
Now i know more WW2 related things that i don't know much about.
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I'm playing a UK Game.Originally posted by Oerdin
This has motivated me to play a game of Hearts of Iron 2 complete with Doomsday and Armageddon expansions. The Panzers shall roll across Europe!
Teh RN with it's 5 BBNs has turned the Mediterrean into a British lake.Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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Have any of you ever watched the Victory at Sea series? It was not only a terrific documentary, but also featured the greatest musical score ever conceived for a TV series.
I saw it first run."I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!Comment
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