The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series
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The story of the war is told through the testimony of an incredible array of key participantsfrom Hitlers secretary to bomber pilot Jimmy Stewart The World at War was the definitive television work on World War II. First broadcast in 1973 it was a unique and irreplaceable record since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long to live. The shows producers committed hundreds of interview-hours to tape in its creation but only a fraction of that recorded material made it to the final cut. The well-known names interviewed for the series include Albert Speer Karl Wolff (Himmlers adjutant) Traudl Junge (Hitlers secretary) James Stewart (USAAF bomber pilot and Hollywood star) Anthony Eden John Colville (Parliamentary Private Secretary to Winston Churchill) Averell Harriman (U.S. Ambassador to Russia) and Arthur "Bomber" Harris (Head of RAF Bomber Command). Richard Holmes has skillfully woven this valuable original material into a compelling narrative creating a truly phenomenal oral history of World War II.
