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.
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Cast of The Road to War
Charles WheelerSelf - Narrator
Joachim FestSelf - Biographer of Hitler
Ikuhiko HataSelf - Professor, Takushoku University
Waldo HeinrichsSelf - Author 'Threshold of War'
Chihiro HosoyaSelf - International University, Niigata
Hans von HerwarthSelf - German Army in Poland, 1939
Eric SevareidSelf - CBS News Correspondent
Ted WillisSelf - 1930s Labour Youth Movement
William L. ShirerSelf - CBS Correspondant, Poland 1939
Valentin BerezhkovSelf - Soviet Foreign Office
James RooseveltSelf - Son of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vittorio MussoliniSelf
Alec Douglas-HomeSelf - P.P.S. to Neville Chamberlain 1937-1940
Adolf GallandSelf - German Air Force in France, 1940
Stéphane GrappelliSelf
Renzo De FeliceSelf - Professor, University of Rome
Eberhard JäckelSelf - Author 'Hitler's World View'
Reinhard SpitzySelf - Secretary to Foreign Minister 1936-1939
Minoru GendaSelf - Air Staff Officer, Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941
Victor WarrenderSelf - War Officer, 1935-1940
Klaus HildebrandSelf - Bonn University
Jean DaridanSelf - French Foreign Ministry
William LeuchtenburgSelf - Professor, University of North Carolina
Mike MasaokaSelf - Schoolboy in Utah, 1920s
Margarete Buber-NeumannSelf - German Communist
Jun EtohSelf - Professor, Tokyo Kyogo University
Erich KubyGerman Army in Russia, 1941
Jean DaladierSelf - Son of Edouard Daladier
Josef FelderSelf - Socialist Member of Reichstag 1932-1933
Con O'NeillSelf - Diplomatic Service 1936-1939
Jean-Baptiste DuroselleSelf - Emeritus Professor, University of the Sorbonne
Karl Otto BraunSelf
Ian JacobSelf - Committee of Imperial Defence 1938
Tadashi KatakuraSelf - Kwantung Army Officer, 1931
Ingeborg SwinneySelf
Ugo PerettiSelf - Founder Member of Fascist Party, Milan
Ron WelshSelf - Shadow Factory Engineer 1938
Peter WilkinsonSelf - British Military Delegation to Poland, 1939
Jack PachosaSelf - Grand Coulee Dam Worker, 1933
Roasaria QuartararaSelf
Sergio BernacconiSelf
Julian RidsdaleSelf - Royal Norfolk Regiment 1935-1945
Ivan LakayevSelf - Air Force General
Marie RoyerSelf
Alexei ShatirinSelf
Tommaso FrancesconiSelf
Carlo Perrone CapanoSelf - Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Noah AdairSelf - Captain, Lieutenant, USS Kearney, 1941
Richard MooreSelf - America First, 1941
Teresa CieplechowiczSelf
Eugenio ChiaradiaSelf
Waclaw JedrzejewiszPolish Government Official, 1939
Mario BanzoSelf
Filippo GrecoSelf - Italian Royal Air Force
Maurice GardetSelf
Mario VignaSelf - Member of Communist Party, Ravenna
Guenther RoosSelf - Hitler Youth
George StraussSelf - Labour M.P. Lambeth, 1930s
Jules ChampougnySelf
Claude PepperSelf - Senator, Democrat, Florida, 1936-1951
Tanya LitvinovaSelf
Piotr KieselovSelf - Party Activist
Alexander Vetrov8th Mechanised Brigade
John ServiceSelf - US Foreign Service, China, 1933-1945
Hans EggebrechtSelf
Bernard SmithSelf - Rover Shadow Factory 1936
Jean DelmasSelf
Vladimir TikhonovSelf - Historian
Shiro AzumaSelf - Imperial Japanese Army, Nanking, 1937
Elena TaniaSelf
Daisy SchlitterSelf
Waclawa KedierskaSelf
Zofia SulikSelf
Arthur AndersSelf - Commander, USS Panay, 1937
Peter MasefieldSelf - Journalist, 'The Aeroplane', 1937-1943
Correlli BarnettSelf - Author, 'The Collapse of British Power'
Robert NathanSelf - New Deal Economist, 1933-1936
Franciszek BartoszakSelf - Westerplatte Garrison 1939
Hannah BlizzardSelf - Resident Weoley Castle Estate since 1933
Vittorio FoaSelf - Senator, Political Prisoner, 1934-43
Marie Helene BiesmansSelf
Andrzej GarlickiSelf - Warsaw University
Werner KoeppenSelf - Nazi Stormtrooper
Egidio OrtonaSelf - Ambassador, Diplomatic Service
