From D-Day to the atom bomb, Laurence Rees guides listeners through the closing stages of the Second World War <\/p>
How risky were the D-Day landings? What sealed the downfall of Nazi Germany? And why did the US decide to drop atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?<\/p>\n
In the final episode of this five-part series tackling the big questions of the Second World War, historian Laurence Rees explores the final stages of the conflict.<\/p>\n
New to the series? Start watching from the beginning<\/a>, or go to the series homepage<\/a>\u00a0 Finished all five episodes? Discover more of our masterclasses and video lectures<\/a>, including another from Laurence Rees devoted to the Holocaust. Laurence Rees\u2019 book Auschwitz: The Nazis and the \u2018Final Solution\u2019<\/em> won History Book of the Year at the British Book awards. His book The Holocaust: A New History<\/em> was a Sunday Times<\/em> Bestseller and described by the Telegraph as \u201cthe finest single volume account of the Holocaust ever written\u201d. Educated at Oxford University, he has been awarded two Honorary Doctorates for this work.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n From D-Day to the atom bomb, Laurence Rees guides listeners through the closing stages of the Second World War <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"From D-Day to the atom bomb, Laurence Rees guides listeners through the closing stages of the Second World War","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/24452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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