World War II : up close and personal / Keith Huxen (Henry M. Jackson Foundation) ; producer, Trish Golden ; supervising producer, Octavia Vannall ; director, Jim M. Allen.
24 lectures (approximately 30 minutes each). Program content: �2021. "Course no. 8152"--Container. "This content, including some wartime documentary footage, includes some descriptions and images that may be disturbing to the viewer. The content may not be suitable for minors or other audiences"--Preliminary sequence. Bibliographical references included in course guidebook (pages 163-174). Lecturer, Keith Huxen.
Contents:
disc 3. Survivor memories : reliving the Holocaust. Japanese soldiers in Nanjing ; Panzer leaders who changed warfare ; Jews inside the Warsaw Group ; The "small acts" of the French Resistance ; A child and a pilot in the London Blitz -- disc 2. The besieged at Leningrad ; The captured and pursued in the Philippines ; The US Home Front as a secret weapon ; James Michener in the South Pacific ; Masters of death in Nazi concentration camps ; A "Red Tolstoy's" vision at Stalingrad -- disc 3. "The bomber will always get through" ; The Tuskegee Airmen and "the experiment" ; US submariners : "a breed apart" ; An American diplomat in the Vatican ; Americans in Britain : countdown to D-Day ; Commanders at the Battle of the Bulge -- disc 4. General Slim and the Forgotten Fight ; The kamikazes and the duty to die ; The yes and ears of war correspondents ; Casualty stories of the atomic age ; A Nuremberg interpreter, a Tokyo judge ; Survivor memories : reliving the Holocaust.
Summary:
A series of lectures presenting the experiences of soldiers, officers, pilots, non-combatants, and war correspondents caught on the front lines of World War II, presented by Keith Huxen, Korean War Oral History Project Director at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation. 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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.