The War a new TV series

RedDevil · 09-14-2007, 12:22 AM,

There's a new series coming to TV this fall about WW2

THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns.

LINK to the Site

09-14-2007, 12:27 AM,

Yeah I seen this advertised on Armchair General.. keep us posted.

RedDevil · 09-23-2007, 09:45 PM,

Here's the air dates below.

A Necessary War 9/23/2007
When Things Get Tough 9/24/2007
A Deadly Calling 9/25/2007
Pride of Our Nation 9/26/2007
FUBAR 9/30/2007
The Ghost Front 10/1/2007
A World Without War 10/2/2007

09-24-2007, 08:47 AM,

What channels it gonna be on??

Havoc · 09-25-2007, 03:47 PM,

It's on PBS the last two nights and the next two; it has been very good so far. It has first hand accounts of combat veterans, but it also has interviews with civilian detainees in the Phillipines, Japanese Americans held in detainee camps, and civilians working and living in the States.

Fubar1 · (This post was last modified: 10-13-2007, 06:57 AM by Fubar1.)

Guys

It's already out on DVD and the long haired general in my house bought it for me last week.
I was anticipating this for a whole year, because of Burns' brilliant treatment of the Civil War

Fubar1 · 10-19-2007, 02:55 AM,

You learn somemthing new every day. I was watching my DVD last night (Episode 2) which is the only way I can with a 2 year old running around me!

Anyways, I found out a B24 Liberator was rolling off the assembly line every 63 minutes!!! Amazing production

As Webster from Band of Brothers said: "Say hello to Ford, and General Motors. Look at you. You have horses. What were you thinking?"

Sgt Barker · (This post was last modified: 10-19-2007, 02:27 PM by Sgt Barker.)

Fubar1 Wrote:As Webster from Band of Brothers said: "Say hello to Ford, and General Motors. Look at you. You have horses. What were you thinking?"

Too right.

A professor of Japanese history told a revealing story to our class a couple of years ago. He's written a couple (at least) books on Japanese history, one of them on the immediate post war period. Doing interviews in Japan a woman told him of her anger when told of the atomic bomb. Not anger at the Americans, anger at her government. She was a member of the 'militia' (for lack of a better term), and had been training with a bamboo spear in order to fight the Americans when they landed. When told that a single bomb had wiped out a city her sense of betrayal was complete - all the years of mystical propaganda about the superiority of the Japanese "way" and culture, how spirit could defeat anything, culminated with her using a bamboo spear against technology that could kill tens of thousands in an instant.

My professor is convinced that this feeling was widespread, if not universal, and explains the Japanese fascination with and explotation of technology post war.

Weasel · 10-22-2007, 03:47 AM,

I was very disappointed with the series; not nearly as good as his Civil War series. I found more time was spent on the home front then the front line, although there was some very good battle footage that I had not seen before. I was going to buy the series, but I am glad I watched it on tv first.

Gasbag · 10-23-2007, 10:34 AM,

I also found this series to be not nearly as good as the Civil War series. That could be because it seemed to be a rehash of information about which I was already aware of. Too much of the series was devoted to the home front & not enough to the front line experience. I enjoyed The Civil War more because I was far less familiar with the subject.