World War II in Colour and HD - Episode 1 : The Gathering Storm

On September 1^st 1939, the most destructive war the world has ever known began as German troops invaded Poland. By the time it ended six years later, more than 70 million people had been killed and whole continents devastated.

Yet, barely 20 years earlier, jubilant crowds in Britain, France and the United States had been promised years of prosperity and peace.

This first programme in the series ‘World War 2 in Colour and HD’ reveals how the high hopes of a generation were swiftly and tragically dashed.

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