00:00For six dark years, the world was on fire.
00:06A conflict that toppled empires and reshaped the modern world.
00:13No part of the globe was untouched, no life unchanged.
00:21The Second World War is the largest event in human history.
00:27It is massive on a scale no one's ever seen before.
00:31They have to fight every climate from the Arctic to the jungles of the Pacific to the deserts of Africa.
00:40It's a war of annihilation.
00:44This is murder on an industrial scale, but each death is uniquely suffered.
00:50Churchill makes an appeal to Roosevelt. We need to stop it.
00:59There could be one victor and one vanquish.
01:08The Japanese commanders ordered their soldiers not to take any prisoners.
01:14In Salingrad, women are very much part of the Red Army effort.
01:18They learn to shoot, they become snipers.
01:23They saved that which is most valued by us all, freedom.
01:29World War II changed everything.
01:32For all of us.
01:34World War II with Tom Hanks.
01:36New series premieres Memorial Day at 8.
01:38Part of History Honors 250.
01:40Only on the History Channel.
01:42Old War II is a worthy philosopher.
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