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Review Roundup
WORLD WAR II
TOP 3 APPS
Get closer to the action
with these apps
STRATEGY & TACTICS:
WW II
Android 2.3+ |
£3.00
Relive the greatest
battles of WWII in
this strategy game that allows
you to take command of Axis or
Allied forces. There are over 30
different missions available in
which to test your skills.
WWII INTERACTIVE
iPad + iOS 4.3 |
£2.99
This app provides
BAND OF a comprehensive text, audio,
video and photographic
BROTHERS account of WWII, perfect
for anyone wanting to know
Year: 2001 more about the conflict. With
timelines for every month of
Directed by: Various the war, famous speeches and
information about the leaders,
This ten-part HBO series tells
major battles and tactics it is
the tale of ‘Easy’ Company of well worth checking out.
the US Army 101st Airborne
division and their mission WWII HISTORY
in WWII Europe, from CHALLENGE
Operation Overlord through iPad + iOS 4.3 |
V-J Day. Different episodes £1.49
feature different members
Test your
of the company, creating a knowledge of World War II with
compelling, comprehensive this history quiz with hundreds
and at times downright of questions about both the
harrowing re-enactment of European and Pacific theatres
some of the horrors of WWII. of conflict in WWII.
TELEVISION AND FILMS
THE DAM DAS BOOT SAVING EDITOR’S PICK
BUSTERS Directed by: PRIVATE RYAN It may not be the most realistic war movie ever made –
Year: 1981
although, apart from one or two obvious exceptions it actually
Year: 1955 Wolfgang Year: 1998 sticks to the facts more than you would think – but 1963’s The
Directed Petersen Directed by: Great Escape is one of the most enjoyable WWII films going.
by: Michael This classic is Steven A top class cast of international talent (including Richard
Anderson set aboard a Spielberg Attenborough, Charles Bronson and James Coburn) attempt to
The Dam German U-Boat While the escape from a German POW camp through the construction
Busters is a on a mission to hunt down basic premise of an underground tunnel and manage to at least make it
dramatisation British ships in 1942. The film of the film may over the fence. The different escape attempts are all well done
of an actual British operation – available in a shorter cut or a still rankle, the opening scene and evenly handled, but are all upstaged by Steve McQueen.
to attack German dams using much longer director’s edition portraying the D-day landings The motorbike finale was allegedly tacked on at the end at
an ingenious technique to – brilliantly conveys the is as powerful as ever and a the star’s explicit insistence, but at least McQueen – and some
drop bombs and damage the tension and claustrophobia of tour de force in filmmaking. of the other cast – don’t get to ride off into the sunset in a
Nazis industrial capacity. The life aboard the cramped vessel surprisingly moving and gripping final act.
film premiered 12 years to the and men pushing themselves,
day of the original raid and and the machine they depend “ Conveys the tension and claustrophobia
although dated, still delivers in on, to breaking point and of life aboard the cramped vessel” © Alamy
terms of excitement. sometimes beyond.
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