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This book presents testimony obtained from nearly a hundred separate witnesses from the period. The series has six episodes, and it aired on bbc in 2008. World war ii rises again on pbs in wwii behind closed doors, a sixhour documentary that ought to make ken burns who not long ago gave public tv his own exhaustive treatise, the war. In this revelatory chronicle of world war ii, laurence rees documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the.
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