You are reading a single comment by @JWestland and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
JWestland
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 The laying bare of outdated colonial attitudes and supposed superiority of the white man which directly contributed to the fall of Singapore, the largest British military defeat in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.