Family Security Matters » Publications » Could We Win If We Had To Fight World War II Today?: "The debate over “The Greatest Generation” and whether the way America is today could duplicate their stunning achievements in winning two wars and fighting through a depression while maintaining unity has been hashed and rehashed by far superior minds than mine.
But I just can’t help thinking about it after watching the History Channel this week and their excellent series, “World War II in HD.”
If you haven’t been able to catch any of it, they will run the entire 10 hours on Saturday starting at 8:00 am central time.
Quite simply, it is the grandest, the most heartbreaking, the most stirring documentary series on World War II ever made. That includes both “Victory at Sea” and “The World at War.”
TWAW is the gold standard - 32 hours of in-depth analysis of the politics, the strategy, the personalities, and ordeals experienced by civilians during the war, but it is rather soulless. Its academic approach can be dry, although the images and words of survivors lend an emotionalism outside the rather clinical analysis offered."
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