Great courses (DVD). Modern history.

Originally released as a documentary film in 2021

Dr. Keith Huxen, a historian and project director at The Henry M. Jackson Foundation, takes you into the story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. From the icy front lines of Soviet Russia to the bombing campaigns against Britain to the fall of the Philippines, these 24 engrossing lectures take you into the shoes of soldiers, sailors, pilots, war correspondents, and citizens struggling to survive a war-torn world

Lecturer: Keith Huxen

DVD

Close captioned in English for the deaf and hard of hearing

Disc 1: Hitler and the Nazi Youth ; Japanese soldiers in Nanjing ; Panzer leaders who changed warfare ; Jews inside the Warsaw Group ; "Small acts" of the French Resistance ; A child and a pilot in the London Blitz --

Disc 2.

Besieged at Leningrad ; Captured and pursued in the Philippines ; US Home Front as a secret weapon ; James Michener in the South Pacific ; Masters of death in Nazi concentration camps ; A "Red Tolstoy's" vision at Stalingrad --

Disc 3.

"The bomber will always get through" ; Tuskegee Airmen and "the experiment" ; US submariners: "A breed apart" ; An American diplomat in the Vatican ; Americans in Britain: Countdown to D-Day ; Commanders at the Battle of the Bulge -- Disc 4. General Slim and the Forgotten Fight ; Kamikazes and the duty to die ; Yes and ears of war correspondents ; Casualty stories of the atomic age ; A Nuremberg interpreter, a Tokyo judge ; Survivor memories: reliving the Holocaust