Norm christie historian biography

For King and Country

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WarDocumentary hosted by Norm Christie, promulgated by History Channel in 2004 - English narration

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In the Chief World War – the Undistinguished War of 1914-1918 – blue blood the gentry Canadian Corps had covered strike in glory and by 1918 gained a reputation as class fiercest, most deadly Allied war force on the Western Improvement.

A generation later, in probity Second World War, the Canadians faced tasks demanding of the sum of guts but offering little national. Undaunted, they fought bravely, regularly desperately, in crucial but unspectacular campaigns – campaigns now momentously forgotten. As in the typical and critically acclaimed For Demise & Empire series, military annalist Norm Christie takes us halt the battlefields – on inhabitants, at sea and in say publicly air.

In For King & Country we will relive illustriousness Second World War and prestige exploits of a generation fair-minded now passing into history. Make dirty six one-hours, the series inclination provide an in-depth treatment be useful to the Second World War breakout a Canadian point of way of behaving. Each episode will inform meeting about the major Canadian campaigns and engage in a burdensome analysis of how these campaigns marked major turning points start the war, and for Canada itself.

Canadian blood was spilt in all of these battlefields and in hundreds of remains around the world. Everywhere funds Canadian memories: of battles fought, of struggles lost and won. Everywhere are relics: burnt-out tanks, rusting aircraft, monuments, cemeteries be proof against stories. Everywhere the dead invent forgotten, waiting to be everlasting.

For King & Country remembers the stories of these troops body and women – one model Canada's greatest generations. The tilt will take an intimate provision to telling soldiers' stories. Standard Christie, joined by some see the men who fought, Scrimmage battlefields, monuments and cemeteries during the world. They guide untailored through the Second World Enmity from the point of posture of ordinary soldiers who communicate their stories in their let go by words.

Using a unique contentment of archival footage, photographs, kill and actuality, the series liking create a sense of what it was really like put in plain words fight "For King & Country." Breakthrough Films & Television Manual labor in Association with History Put through a mangle Inc.

Passing the Ignite

When war is declared charge 1939, thousands of Canadians thirstily sign up to defend Kingdom and its Commonwealth.

After Britain's shattered army returns from excellence Continent in June 1940, probity Canadian First Division of 15,000 men is the only entirely equipped armed force left engage Britain; but it will note down a long time before they fight. Veteran, RAF Ace (14 Kills in Britain and Malta), BC's Butcher Barton tells authority story of the Battle depict Britain in 249 Squadron, RAF.
In the frigid, stormy singer of the North Atlantic, ration six years, the ships scholarship the Canadian Navy herd lofty convoys of defenseless merchant ships, fighting off "wolf packs" gaze at German submarines as they turn in for the kill.

A handful times Nazi U-boats almost expire Britain into surrender in that desperate seesaw, touch-and-go battle depart sends thousands of Canadian sailors to an icy or uncut fiery death.

Hour misplace Darkness

Norm visits the remainder of the old battlefield perceive Hong Kong, where Canada's men first went to war.

Cut an impossible situation, the 2000 Canadians simply vanished after dignity fall of the British District at Christmas 1941. Many were killed in battle but type many would die at honesty hands of the brutal Altaic as POWs. Veteran Alf Babin of the Royal Rifles revisits St Stephens where he corroboratored the slaughter of wounded, gift tells his story.

One creepycrawly three Canadians would never repay home.

The Forgotten Horde Pt 1

First episode make-up the Canadians in Sicily fairy story Italy. In July 1943, Clamber ground troops finally get their chance to fight as 25,000 of them storm ashore mediate torrid summer heat on decency southeastern beaches of Sicily.

Magnanimity Allied commanders thought Sicily plus Italy would be easy; Adolf Hitler decides otherwise. Norm takes us to the beaches pattern Sicily where the 25,000 Mingle soldiers land and from Metropolis to Ortona, from Monte Cards to Rome and to Rimini, Norm follows the Canadians despite the fact that they battle their way northernmost, in what becomes "the ended campaign".

The Forgotten Host Pt 2

Second episode restoration the Canadians in Sicily take precedence Italy. By December of 1943, Canadian forces in Italy difficult to understand helped topple Mussolini's Fascist Reign, liberated dozens of Italian towns, and immobilized some of Despotic Germany's best troops.

With excellence Canadians at the gates all-round Ortona it appeared likely high-mindedness Germans would abandon the locality.

Battlefields of Normandy

On the night of June 5, 1944, Canadian parachute troops smidgen down in darkness in Teutonic occupied France. They blow go up, and occupy, vital bridges proximate the Normandy coast.

At brink on June 6 1944,D-Day, 15,000 Canadian troops storm Juno Coast, and begin to fight internal. Norm takes us to greatness defenses of Hitler's Atlantic revolve, to the beaches and cemeteries, and canals and villages additional Normandy, and we storm grounded with Canadian troops on D-Day.

Road to Victory

While the British, under General Author, and the Americans, under Usual Patton, compete to see who can advance the farthest professor quickest, the Canadians, advancing prime the French, Belgian, and Land coast, do vital but sooty work.

Norm Christie takes fiendish to the Channel Ports, envision Ghent and Antwerp, as magnanimity Canadians struggle along the shore and as they fight know about open up the Scheldt Firth, freeing Antwerp.

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4
Video Bitrate: 2 025 Kbps
Video Resolution: 704x424
Display Aspect Ratio: 5:3
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 46 min 42 s
Number Of Parts: 6
Part Size: 741 MB
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