The Greatest Conflict: News From The Front Lines Of WWII - Audio Book 20 CD
This riverting collection of radio news broadcasts from the front lines of World War II captures the entire terrifying chronolgy of world events. From Germanys Invasion of Poland to the devastating battle of Dunkirk. Hear the great speeches by Churchill, Roosevelt, Eisenhower and MacArthur.
Disc 1:
1. Good News 1939
DISC 2: 1. Declaration Of War
2. Invasion Of Poland
3. Lindbergh's Commentary
4. Foreign Correspondents
DISC 3:
1. Solar Flares
2. America Prepares For War
3. Italy Ponders
4. Flanders & Dunkirk
5. Dunkirk Evacuation
6. Advance On Southern France
7. Wartime Newsroom, The
DISC 4:
1. London & Paris Calling
2. Russian Front, The
3. Fighting Seabees, The
4. Assassination In Rumania
DISC 5:
1. War Declared On Japan
DISC 6:
1. African Front, The
2. Russian Counter-Attack
3. 1 Year After Pearl Harbor
DISC 7:
1. State Of The Union 1942
DISC 8:
1. War In Africa
2. Armistice Day 1942
3. Eleanor Roosevelt
DISC 9:
1. Advances In Burma & New Guinea
2. Stalingrad
DISC 10:
1. Allies Close In, The
2. Progress In Italy & The Pacific
DISC 11:
1. 1944 In Review
DISC 12:
1. Churchill Speaks Out
DISC 13:
1. Churchill Addresses Congress
DISC 14:
1. D-Day In Normandy
DISC 15:
1. D-Day: The Assault Continues
DISC 16:
1. D-Day In Retrospect
2. Eisenhower Reflects
DISC 17:
1. Germany Surrenders
2. Churchill Speaks
3. Generals Speak Out, The
4. Bureaus Report, The
5. War Moves To Asia, The
6. Eisenhower Speaks
DISC 18:
1. Japan Surrenders
2. Celebration In Times Square
3. Mayor La Guardia
4. Aftermath
5. Victory Celebrations
DISC 19:
1. Tribute To FDR, A (Part 1)
DISC 20:
1. Tribute To FDR, A (Part 2)
About World War II
World War II, or the Second World War (often abbreviated WWII or WW2), was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. The war involved the mobilisation of over 100 million military personnel, making it the most widespread war in history. In a state of "total war", the major participants placed their complete economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Over seventy million people, the majority of them civilians, were killed, making it the deadliest conflict in human history.
The start of the war is generally held to be in September 1939 with the German invasion of Poland and subsequent declarations of war on Nazi Germany by the British Commonwealth and France. Many belligerents entered the war before or after this date, during a period which spanned from 1937 to 1941, as a result of other events. Amongst these main events are the Marco Polo Bridge Incident (fought between Nationalist China and Japan), the start of Operation Barbarossa (the Nazi invasion of Russia), and the attacks on Pearl Harbor and British and Dutch colonies in South East Asia. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged from the war as the world's superpowers. This set the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 45 years. The United Nations was formed in the hope of preventing another such conflict. The self-determination spawned by the war accelerated decolonisation movements in Asia and Africa, while Western Europe itself began moving toward integration.
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