A thoughtful, detailed exposition of how and why the end of the Great War led inevitably to the Second World War, the most horrific in human history. Narrated by the great journalist Eric Sevareid.
Where to Watch The Road to War
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Cast of The Road to War
Charles WheelerSelf - Narrator / Writer
Joachim FestSelf - Biographer of Hitler
Hans von HerwarthSelf - German Army in Poland, 1939
Ikuhiko HataSelf - Professor, Takushoku University
Chihiro HosoyaSelf - International University, Niigata
Waldo HeinrichsSelf - Author 'Threshold of War'
Eric SevareidSelf - CBS News Correspondent
Ted WillisSelf - 1930s Labour Youth Movement
James RooseveltSelf - Son of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Adolf GallandSelf - German Air Force in France, 1940
Reinhard SpitzySelf - Secretary to Foreign Minister 1936-1939
William LeuchtenburgSelf - Professor, University of North Carolina
William L. ShirerSelf - CBS Correspondant, Poland 1939
Stéphane GrappelliSelf
Vittorio MussoliniSelf
Minoru GendaSelf - Air Staff Officer, Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941
Arthur AndersSelf - Commander, USS Panay, 1937
Jun EtohSelf - Professor, Tokyo Kyogo University
Mike MasaokaSelf - Schoolboy in Utah, 1920s
Klaus HildebrandSelf - Bonn University
George StraussSelf - Labour M.P. Lambeth, 1930s
Filippo GrecoSelf - Italian Royal Air Force
Shiro AzumaSelf - Imperial Japanese Army, Nanking, 1937
Alexander Vetrov8th Mechanised Brigade
J.A. Graf von KielmannseggGerman Army in Russia, 1941
Alec Douglas-HomeSelf - P.P.S. to Neville Chamberlain 1937-1940
Bill DeedesSelf - Reporter, Daily Telegraph 1937-1939
Correlli BarnettSelf - Author, 'The Collapse of British Power'
Hisashi YamanakaSelf - Schoolboy in Japan, 1930s
Eberhard JäckelSelf - Author 'Hitler's World View'
Erich KubyGerman Army in Russia, 1941
Lev KopelevSelf - Soviet Writer
Claude PepperSelf - Senator, Democrat, Florida, 1936-1951
John ServiceSelf - US Foreign Service, China, 1933-1945
Josef FelderSelf - Socialist Member of Reichstag 1932-1933
Peter MasefieldSelf - Journalist, 'The Aeroplane', 1937-1943
Valentin BerezhkovSelf - Soviet Foreign Office
Vittorio FoaSelf - Senator, Political Prisoner, 1934-43
Maurice VaisseSelf - University of Reims
Jean-Baptiste DuroselleSelf - Emeritus Professor, University of the Sorbonne
Ruth Sarles BenedictSelf - U.S. Peace Movement, 1930s
Ian JacobSelf - Committee of Imperial Defence 1938
Marie RoyerSelf
Renzo De FeliceSelf - Professor, University of Rome
Giorgio PisanoSelf - Senator, Member of Fascist Youth
