DVD
Great blunders of WWII
Publication Information
[S.l.] : A&E Television Networks/The History Channel ; New York, NY : Marketed and distributed in the U.S. by New Video, c2000.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (312 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Great blunders of WWII exposes the fatal errors, startling miscues, and bungled opportunities of the Axis powers which turned the tide of the war and forever changed the course of history.
Notes
DVD format.
Videodisc release of the 1998 public television program produced for The History Channel.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Not rated.
Special features include: Bonus blunders: Battle of the Bulge, Bridge too far, Bomb plot to kill Hitler, The scattering of Convoy PQ17 ; interactive menu ; scene selection.
Contents
- Volume 1. The German blunder at Dunkirk ; Hitler's declaration of war on the U.S. ; The pilot who bombed London ; Hitler's flying blunders
- Volume 2. Japan's mistakes at Midway ; The failure of the Kamikaze ; Death at Stalingrad ; Operation Sea Lion.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Eastern Front.
- Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
- Kamikaze airplanes.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, Japanese.
- Midway, Battle of, 1942.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Ocean.
- Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Soviet Union.
- Operation Sea Lion.
- Lightning war.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, German.
- Documentary films.
- Historical films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- London (England) > History > Bombardment, 1940-1941.
- Germany. Luftwaffe > History.