GATHERING STORM: WWII IN COLOUR DVD

There are nine films in total to collect in these Nugus Martin Productions which is the best collection of rare and unseen footage of World War Two in the world, allowing us to view this epic struggle as never seen before. The first film in the series The Gathering Storm starts that great paradox. How could the settlement of the end of World War One, the 'War to end all wars' lead to an even greater conflict just a few years later? This film shows how the Great Depression sapped the will of democracies of the West to face up to a new and disturbing political phenomenon - the rise of militaristic dictators in Germany, Italy, Japan and Spain. The programme ends as Hitler plots his attack upon Poland. The second film Lightning War shows how the Nazis developed a terrifying new military tactic - Blitzkrieg - and how it caught first Poland and then Britain and France utterly unprepared. The film reveals how heroic French Resistance allowed the British to escape from Dunkirk and live to fight another day. The third film Britain at Bay is June 1940 when Britain stood alone against the Nazis and how close Britain came to defeat, as its exhausted Air Force struggled to fight off the German Luftwaffe. These three films have a total running time of 150 minutes of colour footage.