THE WORLD AT WWAR VOLUME 2

DISCO ONE

DESERT THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA 1940-1943 - Intro; A land made for war, Itlay defeated against the odds, Rommel turns the tables - almost, tank tactics - the key, the retreat to El alamein, Montgomery consolidates, the Battle of El Alamein

STALINGRAD JUNE 1942 - FEBRUARY 1943 - Intro; Russia to be divided, the esulive Red Army, Stalingrad - not one to step back, The fortress of Stalindgrad, Stalindgrad - the mass grave of the Wehrmacht, Winter turns the tables for Stalingrad, Hitler forbade surrender.

WOLFPACK U-BOATS IN THE ATLANTC 1939-1944 - Intro; the black menace of the Atlantic, creating the wolf pack, U-boat tales, Convoy defence tactics understood, the USA fully enters the war, courage alone - no longer enough, the defeat of the U-boats.

RED STAR - THE SOVIET UNION 1941-1943 - Intro; russia sufered, Russia committed to total war, the siege of Leningrad, the changing season of hope, 1942- the year of deep war, Russia prepared, the cost of victory.

DISCO TWO

WHIRLWIND BOMBING GERMANY SEPTEMBER 1939-APRIL 1944 - Intro; strategic bombing, bombs and propoganda, night area bombing, US 8th airforce in England, precision bombing - hits german morale, the cost of top priority targets, the battle of Berlin.

TOUGH OLD GUT - intro; the soft underbelly, Allies divided on strategy, Italy surrenders, the Germans resist, Churchill dones’t concede on italy, tales of war, the road leading to Rome.

IT’S A LOVELY DAY TOMORROW BURMA 1942-1943 - Intro; monsoon and mud, the Burmese Jungle, the British retreat, nderstanding the jungle, the japanese soldier, the japanese captor, totally committed to war.

HOME FIRES BRITAIN 1940-1944 - Intro; bombed Britain, rallying Britain, changing attitudes, the politics of war, British war life, the industrial battle, the changing focus of fear.