Book by Richard Holmes that draws on interviews from the TV series plus additional material. Very good read and as highly reccommended as the TV series
Sat in my 'to read' pile after being kindly sent a copy . Seems there are reams of transcripts of long interviews of which only a minute or two were used by the series which Holmes based the book on. Might have to crack on with it. By the way, has everyone noticed just how cheap the entire World at War series is on DVD at the moment?: Amazon.co.uk: The World At War - Complete TV Series (11 Disc Box Set): DVD: Laurence Olivier £35.48! That's a lot of quality documentary for so little, I'm resisting getting it as I know I'd never get around to actually watching them.
one small critisizm of the t.v series,is the relative lack of detail in the eastern front episodes of a very good documentary.yours,4th wilts.
one small critisizm of the t.v series,is the relative lack of detail in the eastern front episodes of a very good documentary.yours,4th wilts. According to Jeremy Isaacs - the series producer - the Soviet government gave him VERY propagada based film clips and he could not interview many veterans as at the time they were in the soviet block.
According to Jeremy Isaacs - the series producer - the Soviet government gave him VERY propagada based film clips and he could not interview many veterans as at the time they were in the soviet block. That makes sense.
The series has some handicaps due to its age ( eg Eastern Front material as mentioned above, also it was made before knowledge of ULTRA was public ). But it will always have one great advantage which can never be repeated ; interviews with such people as Speer, Warlimont, etc and some very forthright views from ex-combatants such as Max Aitken and 'Hamish' Mahaddie ( definitely non-PC ! ). It's also IMPO a model of how a documentary should be made and edited.
