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World War II: Up Close and Personal

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<p>In <b>World War II: Up Close and Personal</b>, Dr. Keith Huxen, a historian and project director at The Henry M. Jackson Foundation, takes you into the story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. From the icy front lines of Soviet Russia to the bombing campaigns against Britain to the fall of the Philippines, these 24 engrossing lectures take you into the shoes of soldiers, sailors, pilots, war correspondents, and citizens struggling to survive a war-torn world.</p>

Syllabus

  • 01: Hitler and the Nazi Youth
  • 02: Japanese Soldiers in Nanjing
  • 03: Panzer Leaders Who Changed Warfare
  • 04: Jews inside the Warsaw Ghetto
  • 05: The “Small Acts” of the French Resistance
  • 06: A Child and a Pilot in the London Blitz
  • 07: The Besieged at Leningrad
  • 08: The Captured and Pursued in the Philippines
  • 09: The US Home Front as a Secret Weapon
  • 10: James Michener in the South Pacific
  • 11: Masters of Death in Nazi Concentration Camps
  • 12: A “Red Tolstoy’s” Vision at Stalingrad
  • 13: “The Bomber Will Always Get Through”
  • 14: The Tuskegee Airmen and “the Experiment”
  • 15: US Submariners: “A Breed Apart”
  • 16: An American Diplomat in the Vatican
  • 17: Americans in Britain: Countdown to D-Day
  • 18: Commanders at the Battle of the Bulge
  • 19: General Slim and the Forgotten Fight
  • 20: The Kamikazes and the Duty to Die
  • 21: The Eyes and Ears of War Correspondents
  • 22: Casualty Stories of the Atomic Age
  • 23: A Nuremberg Interpreter, a Tokyo Judge
  • 24: Survivor Memories: Reliving the Holocaust
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