S1·E19 – June 24-June 30: The End in Sight

In Moscow, more than 200 captured Nazi banners are ceremonially dragged across a rain-soaked Red Square and thrown to the ground in front of Lenin's tomb to the rumble of hundreds of drums. British bombers destroy the bridge over the River Kwai that the Japanese had forced weak and suffering Allied POWs to build. A Chinese envoy is the first of 50 delegates to sign the charter of the newly-formed United Nations. And as the bitter campaign in the Philippines drags on, President Truman approves a plan to invade mainland Japan. Five million troops, mainly American, will take part.

Cast

Greg Stebner

Narrator

Max Hastings

Self - Author, 'Armageddon'

Kerry Smith

Self - Professor, Brown University

Gregory J.W. Urwin

SelfSelf - Professor, Temple University

William Atwater

Self - Curator, US Army Ordnance Museum

Alan Brinkley

Self - Professor, Columbia University

Omer Bartov

Self - Professor, Brown University

Donald Dencker

Self - WWII Veteran, Pacific

Richard Rhodes

Self - Author, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb'

James Sheehan

Self - Professor, Stanford University