The Great British Channel #Politics, Power War and Greed

Second World War | 24 - Brave New World | July/Sept 1945

This series has been fully up-rezzed to HD, re-voiced, new editing to sort errors discovered and re-balanced to have fewer recaps for binge watchers rather than 24 weeks of serial TV.

With Europe sifting through the rubble of a long and bitter war, the Japanese, true to their cultural heritage refused to surrender.


The prospect of a protracted land campaign, resulting in the deaths of many more American military personnel, was too high a price to pay, leaving Truman to make the decision to end World War II swiftly, with the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.