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Total War-WWII & The Home Front
Product Group: Video
Studio: Wgbh Boston
ISBN: B00000F0P5
EAN: 0783421280236
UPC: 783421280236
VHS Tape
Running Time: 60 minutes
Release Date: 2000-03-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
SKU: 07120326
Condition: Very Good Very Good
Comments: VHS tape in very good shape. From library with usual library markings and plastic clamshell case. Original artwork inside clamshell case lining. Play-tested and has very good video and audio. Very nice tape.
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Description
"No buildings. No buildings at all. Absolutely nothing. You couldn't believe it, you just thought 'Where am I, Where's Plymouth?' It was the only time during the war that I felt a sense of defeat, that we were finished." - British nurse Betty Lawrence, describing the aftermath of an air raid. The Second World War was the first modern conflict in which millions more civilians died than soldiers. As economic production became essential to military success, civilians were conscripted into factories, and suddenly became fair game. In Total War, eyewitnesses from Britain, Germany, Russia, Korea, Japan, and the United States tell the story of the civilians, children, sisters, brothers, who suffered and died in the Second World War. Residents of Plymouth, Tokyo, and Hamburg remember the air raids; Russian peasants recall the siege of Leningrad; Japanese soldiers and Korean slave-laborers describe the brutality of war in Asia. Throughout, interviewees remember the extraordinary suffering of a people's war like none before. The people remember: Rosie the Riveter, shipbuilding, Pearl Harbor, air raids, the Blitz, the Siege of Leningrad, the atom bomb.
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August 1945: One plane and one kind of bomb destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in seconds, bringing to an end a war in which, for the first time, all people became targets and more civilians lost their lives than soldiers. World War II was a conflict different than any before it. This powerful episode from this Emmy Award-winning series dramatically recalls life on the frontlines and on the homefront, where factories geared up for the war effort and a new workforce was drafted while men went off to fight. Feature films such as Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line view World War II from the soldier's perspective. Total War brings home the horrors of life during wartime in profoundly moving interviews with eyewitnesses from the United States, Britain, Germany, Russia, and Japan. As the technology of war reached its zenith, soldiers and civilians alike faced bombings, atrocities, and starvation. A British nurse describes the aftermath of an air raid ("No buildings, no buildings at all. Absolutely nothing") and a Russian peasant recalls the two-and-a-half year siege of Leningrad, during which almost a million people died from starvation and cold. "Mama tried to bite a bit of flesh from my little daughter," she recalls. "So I never left my daughter on her own at home." One Japanese soldier is still haunted by memories of the atrocities he committed against the Chinese. He recalls his army's slogan: "Burn all, steal all, kill all," and solemnly adds, "I did many terrible things." This is gripping stuff not generally addressed in Hollywood films. Like all the programs in this epic series, Total War presents a fresh and more intimate perspective of a well-chronicled subject. --Donald Liebenson
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