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This is the story of two wars fought at the same time on opposite ends of the globe, often mislabeled as a single war: The Second World War. These conflicts remade our world in just a few decades. A story of how the rise and fall of great powers, from Nazi Germany to Imperial Japan, recast nations into those who could afford, and those that could not afford The Price of Empire.
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00:10The Second World War ended more than 70 years ago, but wars never end.
00:17For those who fought or suffered, the memories are indestructible.
00:26There was a voice in my ear saying, help, help me.
00:32Five thousand ships gathering together. It was a sight to see.
00:39I was virtually killed in the cruise. Well, that left three of us.
00:45We are hot, but now nobody thinks we are hot, because we came back.
00:51Well, that's why I lived here and came back and came back.
00:59It's impossible for a human life.
01:03These men are eyewitnesses to the triumphs and tragedies of the greatest of all man-made events.
01:19Ravaging the East since 1937 and Japan's invasion of China, war reached Europe on the 1st of September 1939 with
01:29Germany's invasion of Poland.
01:33It became global on the 7th of December 1941 when Japanese aircraft attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.
01:42This is the story of six years that shaped our world, of a war that touched every continent, cost more
01:51than $4 trillion in today's values, and took the lives of millions of men, women and children before it ended
02:00with a new weapon for a new age.
02:11The massive story is told in 13 episodes of how our world was made.
02:19By those who could pay, and those who could no longer meet.
02:28The price of empire.
02:33The price of empire.
02:33The price of empire.
02:35The price of empire.
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