The History Channel has dropped the first look at its upcoming World War II documentary starring America\u2019s favorite actor-turned-Second World War documentary voiceover extraordinaire: Tom Hanks. <\/p>\n
Premiering on May 25, the whopping 20-part series is set to uncover \u201cnew dimensions of the conflict,\u201d according to the History Channel. <\/p>\n
From \u201cthe decisions that shaped the battlefield, the unseen networks that sustained the war effort, and the aftershocks that still shape our world today,\u201d the documentary entitled \u201cWorld War II with Tom Hanks\u201d offers a definitive retelling of the most destructive war in human history. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor six dark years,\u201d comes Hanks\u2019 voice in the teaser trailer, \u201cthe world was on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a war that toppled empires and reshaped the modern world, but it didn\u2019t just begin as German tanks rolled into Poland, nor did it just escalate with Operation Barbarossa or the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. <\/p>\n
It was a war that was fomented in the 1920s and 1930s throughout beer halls in Germany and in Manchuria, China, Abyssinia (Ethiopia), Spain and beyond. With over 20 hours of footage, this is a fact that \u201cWorld War II with Tom Hanks\u201d does not appear to gloss over. <\/p>\n
\u201cWorld War II changed everything \u2026 for all of us,\u201d says Hanks. Here\u2019s hoping that the documentary provides new insights into a topic that has been heavily tread. <\/p>\n
Claire Barrett is an editor and military history correspondent for Military Times. She is also a World War II researcher with an unparalleled affinity for Sir Winston Churchill and Michigan football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The History Channel has dropped the first look at its upcoming World War II documentary starring America\u2019s favorite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[229805,4426,26711,29908,4427,29909,88,99968,229804,29910,206,229808,229806,229807],"class_list":["post-504726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-best-war-stories","tag-circulated-air-force-times","tag-circulated-army-times","tag-circulated-marine-corps-times","tag-circulated-military-times","tag-circulated-navy-times","tag-entertainment","tag-military-history","tag-military-stories","tag-military-times","tag-movies","tag-tome-hanks","tag-war-history","tag-wwii-documentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}