The Concise History Of World War 2 DVD

The Concise History of World War One covers the 'War to end all Wars' with extraordinary footage (still and moving pictures) from the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo on the 24th June 1914 to the peace signing in Versailles 5 years later. The scale and intensity of the conflict were unprecedented with more men fighting and more casualties in action than any prior human conflict. About 70 million soldiers took part in the fighting including 60 million Europeans. New technologies - machine guns better artillery advanced logistics poison gas... aerial warfare and submarines - increased the scale of the carnage. The war claimed over 40 million casualties including approximately 20 million civilian and military dead. Many of the events attendant upon the war - blockade revolution genocide and a global influenza pandemic - increased the misery. [show more]

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