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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