Battlefied S2/E3 - The Battle for Russia

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  @TheDeJureTour · 8 years ago

  Now this is a REAL documentary. 1994, wow. They don't make them like this anymore.

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• ED

  @edydon · 9 years ago

  A few moments of respect for the narrator - Tim Pigot-Smith. A fine Shakespearean and voice artist. RIP

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• DF

  @dfsengineer · 4 years ago (edited)

  What I really love about BATTLEFIELD is that they usually start with the clock wound back a year or so from the real topic of the episode so they can explain in depth all the background to the events for better understanding of them. Don't find many other history series that do that.

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• PS

  @Psychonautslog · 10 years ago

  'In Russia I encountered the fifth element - mud.' Napoleon Bonaparte

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• RI

  @Rikkasauruzz · 8 years ago (edited)

  I remember getting goosebumps when the opening theme music would start. Best-ever WW2 series. PBS was da shizznit back in the 90s

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• LI

  @LibilowTimayy · 7 months ago

  my mom bought me this series for Christmas when I was ten. 1995 😮

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• DA

  @danielh3179 · 7 years ago

  The narration at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAfcOYKMPP4&amp;t=6683">1:51:23</a> is very well written and delivered by Tim Pigot-Smith: &nbsp;&quot;On Dec. 1st in the center, the German 4th army had launched a final massive effort to smash what defenses remained in front of Moscow. Everything depended on the Russians having no reserves. However, for weeks Zhukov had been denied reinforcements as Stalin had held back increasingly powerful reserve formations, &nbsp;including the bulk of the Siberian divisions and their armor. The strength of the defenders was now up to over half a million. On Dec. 5th, Zhukov launched the reserves in a massive counter-attack. The Russian offensive was launched along a front 600 miles long. &nbsp;To the Germans, whose own offensive was being carried on with the last ounce of their strength, it came as a hideous shock. Along the entire length of the line, German armies were shattered into thousands of isolated units, fighting desperately for survival. The Battle of Moscow was lost and with it the Wehrmacht had lost the Battle for Russia.&quot;

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• CR

  @Crazeyfor67 · 8 years ago

  The narrator is one of the best ever. Thank you sir.

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• US

  @User-gn6qz · 7 years ago

  Anyone else watch this series more than once or twice and also anytime in 2018?

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• CA

  @caesar4857 · 7 years ago

  WHy can&apos;t more documentaries be like this? Not one sided (as far as i could tell) and just giving information on what happened.

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• RE

  @RealPerson1000 · 8 years ago

  The eastern front is on a lvl of its own. No other war comes close to the scale of the ost front.

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• JO

  @josephbertrand5558 · 6 years ago

  I&apos;ve watched this a hundred times &nbsp;or more

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