World at War

Cpl Rootes · 18-02-2008, 08:05 PM

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

von Poop · 18-02-2008, 08:16 PM

Sat in my 'to read' pile after being kindly sent a copy

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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.

4th wilts · 19-02-2008, 04:15 PM

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.

Cpl Rootes · 20-02-2008, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

stevew · 20-02-2008, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Cpl Rootes

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.

Gotthard Heinrici · 20-02-2008, 11:17 PM

Actually given that it was the early 70's, the footage is good!

Martin Bull · 21-02-2008, 07:53 AM

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.

18-02-2008, 08:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
Cpl Rootes Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: With Puff the Magic Dragon, living by the sea Posts: 1,054	World at War 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 __________________ Regards, Alex http://rootsie.wordpress.com/

18-02-2008, 08:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 8,087	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. __________________ It's only the Internet.

20-02-2008, 11:17 PM	#6 (permalink)
Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,698	Actually given that it was the early 70's, the footage is good! __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

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4th wilts Discharged Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: wessex Posts: 1,039	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.

21-02-2008, 07:53 AM	#7 (permalink)
Martin Bull Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: London Posts: 50	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.

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