Introduced by Laurence Rees.

World War II redrew the political map of the world and ushered in changes whose reverberations are still felt today. The BBC series in this box set cover the most crucial aspects of the war. This 12 disc box set, released to commemorate VE Day, contains the 10 definitive BBC series that have shaped our understanding of WWII.

The box set contains the following four volumes:

Volume One
The Nazis: A Warning from History (2 Discs)
The Road to War (1 Disc)
The ideology and murderous excesses of the Nazi Party's 12-year reign of terror is examined in The Nazis: A Warning from History. The Road to War considers the build-up to the conflict and explains how the major nations found confrontation inevitable.

Volume Two

Dunkirk (1 Disc)
War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin (1 disc)
Battle of the Atlantic (1 Disc)
The drama-documentary Dunkirk tells the stories of the miraculous evacuation of thousands of servicemen from France, while War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin reveals the true horrors of the war on the Eastern Front and Battle of the Atlantic details German U-boats attempt to starve Britain to submission.

Volume Three

Horror in the East (1 Disc)
Battlefields (1 Disc)
D-Day (1 Disc)
The 'barbaric' psychology of the Japanese forces is examined in Horror in the East and the inimitable Professor Richard Holmes uncovers the conflict's major campaigns in Battlefields, while dramatic reconstructions and personal testimony of the Allied invasion make up the compelling D-Day.

Volume Four

D-Day to Berlin (1 Disc)
Auschwitz - The Nazis and 'The Final Solution' (2 Discs)
D-Day to Berlin documents 'Operation Market Garden', 'The Battle of the Bulge' and the discovery of the concentration camps, a horror analysed in detail by the acclaimed documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis & 'The Final Solution'.

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