Second world war

9 cards. Each one is a 40-second story with a five-minute read behind it.

1. The strategic shift to island-hopping redefined the Pacific theaterExperience the brutal reality of 'The Island War' through colorized historical footage. This episode explores how a pivotal American tactic systematically dismantled Japanese nava…
2. Bringing the Pacific Front into a vibrant, humanized realityExperience the opening of the Pacific Front through colorized archival footage and historical analysis. This episode explores how visual technology can bridge the gap between dist…
3. How secrecy and a distracted dictator enabled the liberation of Western EuropeThis episode uses colorized original footage to bring the massive scale of Operation Overlord into vivid, human reality. It explores how the Allies managed to breach mainland Euro…
4. The industrialization of murder redefined the scale of human atrocityWorld War II introduced a level of systematic violence that eclipsed previous historical butcheries. By moving from disorganized warfare to deliberate, state-sponsored exterminati…
5. The Treaty of Versailles and a failed League of Nations paved the wayWorld War II did not emerge in a vacuum; it was the culmination of unresolved tensions following 1918. This video explores how economic ruin and aggressive expansionism by totalit…
6. A singular clash in the longest campaign of the Second World WarExplore one of the most compelling ship-to-ship engagements of the Battle of the Atlantic, featuring the encounter between the German submarine U-66 and the Destroyer Escort USS B…
7. The forgotten 1942 amphibious invasion that shaped modern warfareBefore the massive landings at Normandy, the Allies conducted their first large-scale amphibious invasion in the Indian Ocean. Often overlooked due to its limited scale, the battl…
8. How an outnumbered RAF prepared to defend Britain in 1940Witness a chronological account of the 1940 contest between British and German air forces. Using unseen footage from the film Battle of Britain, this video explores how a nation p…
9. A Japanese soldier kept fighting the Second World War until 1974.Hiroo Onoda was ordered never to surrender. So when leaflets announced Japan's defeat in 1945, he dismissed them as enemy tricks and stayed in the jungle of a Philippine island fo…

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