Narrow escapes of WWII : a series about heroes.

Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: NAR 01 01 | Readers DigestDistributor: [Australia] : Readers Digest Australia, [2014]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 6 DVD-videos (approximately 676 min.) : sound, colour with black & white sequences ; 12 cmContent type: two-dimensional moving image Media type: video Carrier type: videodiscOther title: Narrow escapes of World War 2 | Narrow escapes of World War Two | Series about heroesSubject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns | Soldiers -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Documentary films. | War films. | Biographical films. | Nonfiction films. DDC classification: 940.54
Contents:
Part 1: Disc 1. The Amiens raid ; The Doolittle raid ; Wingate & the Chindits -- Disc 2. The black battalion ; Lucky Laycock's escape from Crete.
Part 2: Disc 1. Manstein holds the line ; The siege of Kohima -- Disc 2. Roy Urquhart's escape from Arnhem ; Morshead holds Tobruk.
Part 3: Disc 1. Evacuation in the Baltic ; Moore's march -- Disc 2. Operation Pedestal ; Breakout through Hell's Gate.
Summary: "Narrow Escapes of World War II tells the real stories of courageous and deadly fights against impossible odds. The extraordinary stories of heroes; men who stand up and fight when everything seems lost. Those brilliant generals, ferocious warriors and individual acts of courage that can turn the tide in a war and whose stories can still be told as shining examples of bravery and courage. This series combines eyewitness and expert testimony with specially shot material, dramatic reconstruction and archive - much of it previously unseen"--Container.
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Rated: M.

In English.

Part 1: Disc 1. The Amiens raid ; The Doolittle raid ; Wingate & the Chindits -- Disc 2. The black battalion ; Lucky Laycock's escape from Crete.

Part 2: Disc 1. Manstein holds the line ; The siege of Kohima -- Disc 2. Roy Urquhart's escape from Arnhem ; Morshead holds Tobruk.

Part 3: Disc 1. Evacuation in the Baltic ; Moore's march -- Disc 2. Operation Pedestal ; Breakout through Hell's Gate.

"Narrow Escapes of World War II tells the real stories of courageous and deadly fights against impossible odds. The extraordinary stories of heroes; men who stand up and fight when everything seems lost. Those brilliant generals, ferocious warriors and individual acts of courage that can turn the tide in a war and whose stories can still be told as shining examples of bravery and courage. This series combines eyewitness and expert testimony with specially shot material, dramatic reconstruction and archive - much of it previously unseen"--Container.

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