Review of
WWII:
The War In Europe, Volume 1, a VHS tape by the History Channel
Three out of five stars
This brief
video is an overview of the entire war, from the first shots fired in Poland to
the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri. As such there is no
analysis of the causes of the war, no discussion of general strategy, just a
narration of a series of short sections of battle footage. In general, maps are
not used to locate where the battle is taking place, only the geographically
literate will be able to understand the location and put it in context.
Some of the video
also seems misplaced. In the section about the Battle of the Bulge, some of the
footage has the unbundled men fighting on bare ground. This battle was fought
in the dead of winter with freezing temperatures and a lot of snow on the
ground. This tape is at best a primer on the war, at worst it is a collection
of snippets of combat footage where the location is altered with no prior re-orientation.
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