World War Two - 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly

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Contents 1 General Information 2 Cover 3 Information 4 Screenshots 5 Technical Specs 5.1 720p Version 5.2 468p Version 6 Links 6.1 Further Information 6.2 Release Post 6.3 Related Documentaries 6.4 ed2k Links

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War Documentary hosted by David Reynolds, published by BBC in 2012 - English narration

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The British fought the Second World War to defeat Hitler. This film asks why, then, did they spend so much of the conflict battling through North Africa and Italy?

Historian David Reynolds reassesses Winston Churchill's conviction that the Mediterranean was the 'soft underbelly' of Hitler's Europe. Travelling to Egypt and Italian battlefields like Cassino, scene of some of the worst carnage in western Europe, he shows how, in reality, the 'soft underbelly' became a dark and dangerous obsession for Churchill.

Reynolds reveals a prime minister very different from the jaw-jutting bulldog of Britain's 'finest hour' in 1940 - a leader who was politically vulnerable at home, desperate to shore up a crumbling British empire abroad, losing faith in his army and even ready to deceive his American allies if it might delay fighting head to head against the Germans in northern France. The film marks the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein in 1942.

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• Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4.1
  
• Video Bitrate: CRF 21
  
• Video Resolution: 1280x720
  
• Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  
• Frames Per Second: 25
  
• Audio Codec: AAC-LC
  
• Audio Bitrate: 160Kbps ABR 48KHz
  
• Audio Channels: 2
  
• Run-Time: 89 mins
  
• Framerate: 25 FPS
  
• Number Of Parts: 1
  
• Part Size: 2.28 GB
  
• Source: HDTV
  
• Encoded by: JungleBoy

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• Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L3.1
  
• Video Bitrate: CRF 22.5
  
• Video Resolution: 832x468
  
• Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  
• Frames Per Second: 25
  
• Audio Codec: HE-AAC
  
• Audio Bitrate: 128Kbps ABR 48KHz
  
• Audio Channels: 2
  
• Run-Time: 89 mins
  
• Framerate: 25 FPS
  
• Number Of Parts: 1
  
• Part Size: 966 MB
  
• Source: HDTV
  
• Encoded by: JungleBoy

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• BBC Site

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• MVGroup.org (torrent)

[edit] Related Documentaries

• Living with Hitler: Series 1
• Naples 1944: A Wartime Diary (BBC)
• Hitler's Rise the Colour Films
• Naples 1944: A Wartime Diary
• Hamish (BBC)
• Churchill's First World War (BBC 1080p)
• Ortona 1943: A Very Bloody Christmas
• The World at War
• World War Two: A Timewatch Guide
• The Allies
• The Day Hitler Died
• World War Two: 1945 and the Wheelchair President
• Churchill's First World War
• Menzies And Churchill At War
• Tankies: Tank Heroes of World War II
• Churchill's Desert War: The Road to El Alamein
• Battle for the Desert
• The Desert War
• Rommel - The Last Knight
• World War Two - 1941 and the Man of Steel
• Monte Cassino: The Soldier's Story
• War of the Century
• Battlefields of WWII
• D-Day to Berlin
• Apocalypse: The Second World War
• The Battle of the Atlantic

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