theres a documentary on Uk channel bbc2 now about the discoveries Beevor made while researching his Berlin book.
I just found it by accident a few mins ago.
Kobold.
BEEVOR on uk tv now!
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Would have been interesting
I hope the programme was good, I am about 2 hours too late to see it.
Too busy making fires with the scout group! lol
Was it interesting...???
Regards
Matt G
Too busy making fires with the scout group! lol
Was it interesting...???
Regards
Matt G
beevor-brief review of the tv show
It appeared to be a tv show in the same format as the stalingrad book (but about berlin of course).
Lots of cool (some colour) wartime footage, and interviews with people who were there, including several Russian and German veterans and civilians, who told often harrowing tales of their experiences.
Lots of stuff on the Zeelow Heights Assault too.
There was also footage of Beevor and others at digs on battlefield sites, looking for the remains of the fallen - they showed a couple of sites where they had found remains and identified them, folowed by an interview with relatives of the newly uncovered dead.
He then went on to mention why stalin was so determined to reach Berlin before the allies - and there were scenes of him examing documents in "previously unseen archives".
I was called away from tv for a short while after that so I only caught little bits after that - bu he seemed to be of the opinion that Stalin was after the germans atomic plants or something.
(If I could operate my vcr I would have recorded it)
Kobold / Dave
Lots of cool (some colour) wartime footage, and interviews with people who were there, including several Russian and German veterans and civilians, who told often harrowing tales of their experiences.
Lots of stuff on the Zeelow Heights Assault too.
There was also footage of Beevor and others at digs on battlefield sites, looking for the remains of the fallen - they showed a couple of sites where they had found remains and identified them, folowed by an interview with relatives of the newly uncovered dead.
He then went on to mention why stalin was so determined to reach Berlin before the allies - and there were scenes of him examing documents in "previously unseen archives".
I was called away from tv for a short while after that so I only caught little bits after that - bu he seemed to be of the opinion that Stalin was after the germans atomic plants or something.
(If I could operate my vcr I would have recorded it)
Kobold / Dave
