Thursday, January 31, 2008
THE WAR: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns Read by Ken Burns and others.
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Producer documentarian Ken Burns retains his famous "this happened to us" style of telling history by having three other voices, one of them Tom Hanks's, interspersed in the narration. Burns's soft voice disappears into realistic images of flaming kamikaze planes and the Normandy beaches.
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