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Blitzkrieg
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Maker: Visual Education Corporation Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated
On September 3, 1939, two days after the invasion of Poland, England and France declared war on Germany. World War II had officially begun. This cassette begins with Chamberlain's declaration of war a...S03117
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Britain Stands Alone
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Maker: Visual Education Corporation Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated
"If the British Empire and its commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say, 'This was their finest hour,' " promised Winston Churchill. This cassette reports the Battle of Britain and th...S03118
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Counteroffensives
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Maker: Visual Education Corporation Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated
After the victories at El Alamein and Stalingrad, the Allies began to push the German forces back for the first time. This cassette examines these Allied counteroffensives. A military historian analys...S03121
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D-Day and the Battle for Europe
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Maker: Visual Education Corporation Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated
On June 6th, 1944, the Allies invaded Normandy. The cassette begins with reports made aboard ships steaming toward Normandy on the eve of D-day. One reporter describes what it was like to parachute in...S03123
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Media in Wartime
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Maker: Visual Education Corporation Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated
This survey of various Axis and Allied propaganda techniques begins with excerpts from a broadcast made by Lord Haw Haw, in which he cleverly tries to undermine Allied unity. Different Axis approaches...S03127
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Peace in Our Time
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Maker: Visual Education Corporation Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated
In 1933, Adolph Hitler became chancellor of Germany. He presided over Germany's new fascist government - a Third Reich which Hitler promised, would last "a thousand years." This cassette examines the...S03116
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The Air and Sea War
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Maker: Visual Education Corporation Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated
After the Battle of Britain, the British had to focus their attention on the growing U-boat menace in the Atlantic. Side one of this cassette explores the Battle of the Atlantic. A gunner aboard the H...S03122
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The Lessons of Nuremberg
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Maker: Visual Education Corporation Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated
This cassette includes graphic eyewitness accounts of life in the Nazi concentration camps as well as testimony concerning the medical experiments performed in them. The cassette should be played only...S03126
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Turning Points
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Maker: Visual Education Corporation Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated
This cassette studies the three major battles that turned the tide of the war in favour of the Allies: El Alamein in North Africa, Midway in the Pacific and Stalingrad in Russia. The description of th...S03120
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Victory in Europe
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Maker: Visual Education Corporation Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated
Within eight months of the D-day landings, the Allies advanced as far as the border of Germany. But a weakness in their front line allowed a last-ditch German counteroffensive, the Battle of the Bulge...S03124
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Victory in the Pacific
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Maker: Visual Education Corporation Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated
In August, 1942, the Marines landed at Guadalcanal. The landing was the first offensive in a series of large-scale, amphibious operations and bitter jungle combat actions that ultimately led to the Am...S03125