Customer Rating: 
Summary: Top notch
Comment: BBC at its best. With quite a number of WW2 DVD's out there BBC always stands out from the rest. Unlike The World at War (Thames Television) or The Great War (BBC) this isn't one complete show but several series collected togeather. Therefore they lack uniformity and complete overview but individually they stand out and stay quite focused. The two best Series are Nazis a Warning from History - an account of how can humans become monsters and The War in the Atlantic - a superb series that give such a terrific overview and understanding of the war in the North Atlantic.
Some of the shows mix newly made acted recreations of events that bring the subjesct to life mixed in with WW2 footage and interviews with veteran's. And it is the veteran's that are the strongest part of all the shows. Men from privates to majors, from comercial sailors to U-boat Captains, telling tales of first hand experience. Most of the series where made around the year 2000 and every year more and more of the people that lived through the war pass away. And soon we will no longer have series such as these...
The price is high but with around 26 hours of quality television programming - you get you pennies worth.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Solid but not complete
Comment: A solid collection of some of the best series the BBC have produced on this subject matter.
Disappointing in that the excellent 'The Road To War' series, written by the incisive Charles Wheeler (eminent former stalwart of Newsnight,) only includes four of the eight episodes from that series.
The episodes relating to Great Britain, Japan, Italy and the USA are here, but four episodes which are somewhat critical in the broader insight given by this series are arbitrarily and perplexingly omitted. Namely those concerning Germany, Russia and France and the final episode devoted to a summation and overview of the couple of years prior to the outbreak of war.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Absolutely Vital.
Comment: Yes, the price is a bit on the high side, but it's worth it. With such series as: The Nazis; A Warning From History and Auschwitz, this collection is a must have if you have any interest in the history of the Second World War.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A top quality selection of BBC documentaries
Comment: This selection of BBC documentaries, which have all been shown as individual separate TV series, provide thoughtful intelligent insight into several of the major pivotal events throughout WW2, which were instrumental in shaping its final outcome.
The standard of the individual programs is up to the usual high professional quality you would expect from BBC productions, being well researched and delivering on the whole an impartial and balanced overview of the subject matter.
Using actual film footage - much of which has not been seen before, these varied presentations combine many in depth, personal eyewitness accounts with excellent narrative and in some cases dramatic reconstructions.
The overall effect is to present the viewer with a selection of several quite separate, informative and entertaining series of individual presentations which span many theatres of operation and help create a greater and deeper understanding of the main events which changed the 20th century.
If you are a history buff then this series is for you, whilst several of the individual series are available separately, such as "The Nazis - A warning from history" many such as the outstanding 4 part "Battlefields" (presented by Richard Holmes) and "Battle of the Atlantic" never were until now.
In short this is an excellent collection that will provide you with many hours of top quality viewing to be enjoyed time and time again.
The only one drawback is the massive price, which would tend to put many potential buyers off - or at least make them look elsewhere for a better offer.
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