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Do those programs mention the firebombing of Dresden

If you watch a program on the air war over Europe it's likely this will be highlighted. Unless it's a US focussed program in which case it will not. It is in the World at War.

and all the mainland EU/commonwealth soldiers fighting with the UK forces routinely?

This too.

There are some cheapy low budget stuff that just focus on Nazi characters, but I'm a bit 'so what?' about that. They are not painted as anything but monsters. If it's taken off the TV, it will just go on YouTube (it already is). And you can buy books on all of them. The Speer one is worth reading.

The World at War mentions all offensives and refers to the scale of impact but it doesn't go into fine detail about human impact of anything other than the holocaust.

There is no cheering victory. The series as a whole is bleak and harrowing as fuck.

Dresden

It's always worth a reminder that almost all large German cities (with exceptions like Wiesbaden, because post-war the Americans wanted to erect their headquarters there) were almost completely destroyed. Most smaller towns were spared, and Dresden wasn't the only city to suffer a horrible fate. Years ago in the Guardian there was an extract from or a review of a book by WG Sebald which touched on the bombing of Hamburg, which is one of the most horrific things I've ever read and have no wish to read again. Search for it at your own risk.

One of the reasons the WAW series was so respected is because of the inclusion of participants on both sides, policy makers, combatants and civilians.

One example springs to mind of it being slightly ahead of its time. The laying bare of outdated colonial attitudes and supposed superiority of the white man which directly contributed to the fall of Singapore, the largest British military defeat in history.

Worth watching the full series with introductions by the producer Jeremy Isaacs that contextualise each episode, also the extra programs with historian Stephen Ambrose.