We're going to be runners up again. :-(

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Originally Posted by Chief Arrowhead

Larry Olivier was the narrator.

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It's Michael Redgrave, Chief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_War_(TV_series)

The won about the war with Pershing, not Patton.

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Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult

It's Michael Redgrave, Chief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_War_(TV_series)

The won about the war with Pershing, not Patton.

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He?s talking about World at War, GG,

And his narration is brilliant, to the extent that they can be.

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Originally Posted by WES

He?s talking about World at War, GG,

And his narration is brilliant, to the extent that they can be.

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beaches and waited for the end. But the end would come from the sky. Unimaginable, irresistible ....... mushroom shaped." It was Larry's excellent timing that made his narration so compelling and poignant.

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Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman

beaches and waited for the end. But the end would come from the sky. Unimaginable, irresistible ....... mushroom shaped." It was Larry's excellent timing that made his narration so compelling and poignant.

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It feels like an odd thing to say, but these types of series are so reliant on the quality of narration. Almost as important as the script. The wrong voice can ruin the drama.

The music in that series was perfect. Dramatic and slightly terrifying.

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Originally Posted by Peter

It feels like an odd thing to say, but these types of series are so reliant on the quality of narration. Almost as important as the script. The wrong voice can ruin the drama.

The music in that series was perfect. Dramatic and slightly terrifying.

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My favourite episode was the one on the defeat of France, the Maginot Line, the French reaction etc

Also the first episode on the new Germany

Magnificent stuff

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My favourite episode was the one on the defeat of France, the Maginot Line, the French reaction etc

Also the first episode on the new Germany

Magnificent stuff

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I like Alone and Barbarossa. The tipping point of the war in Europe.

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I like Alone and Barbarossa. The tipping point of the war in Europe.

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The tragedy of the thing is that it was filmed before the release of the Enigma files; without the story of Ultra and Bletchley Park the story was lacking one of its most important elements.

Doesn't stop me watching it over and over again, of course.

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The tragedy of the thing is that it was filmed before the release of the Enigma files; without the story of Ultra and Bletchley Park the story was lacking one of its most important elements.

Doesn't stop me watching it over and over again, of course.

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Shirley the cathartic moment of the series must be the episode on the fall of Berlin where the German woman un-emotionally tells of her and her mother being raped by Russian soldiers.

For some reason I found that more disturbing than the Holocaust episode, which at the time just seemed unfathomable.

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Shirley the cathartic moment of the series must be the episode on the fall of Berlin where the German woman un-emotionally tells of her and her mother being raped by Russian soldiers.

For some reason I found that more disturbing than the Holocaust episode, which at the time just seemed unfathomable.

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I think the scale and severity of the war on the Eastern front is almost unfathomable. There is a scene after Stalingrad that shows hundreds of thousands of German soldiers being taken captive before quietly informing you that fewer than 3% of those pictured returned home alive...... the difficulty in feeling sympathy for German soldiers shows that war can sometimes be as dehumanising as genocide.

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I think the scale and severity of the war on the Eastern front is almost unfathomable. There is a scene after Stalingrad that shows hundreds of thousands of German soldiers being taken captive before quietly informing you that fewer than 3% of those pictured returned home alive...... the difficulty in feeling sympathy for German soldiers shows that war can sometimes be as dehumanising as genocide.

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Germany, innit. A fantastic piece of real estate but, with avaricious foes on all sides, she has proven to be impossible to defend or protect. Almost every competent invading army in history has had a go at her and most have succeeded.

Interestingly, while the British get up on our hind legs about hordes of military-age men overrunning our islands, the Germans shrug their shoulders; it's normal for them, it's their history.