NEW YORK, NY – From the first musket shots at Lexington and Concord to the precision-guided munitions in modern-day Baghdad, America’s history has been forged in the heat of battle. This February, join A&E Home Video and THE HISTORY CHANNEL for the most comprehensive DVD set ever created charting U.S. military conflict with the AMERICA AT WAR MEGASET. Featuring over 32 hours of award-winning documentaries from one of the most respected sources of historical programming – 35 ground-breaking docs on 14 DVDs – the definitive U.S. war set is a military historian’s dream. It will be available to add to every home entertainment library on February 26 for the collectible price of $129.95SRP.
NEW YORK, NY – From the first musket shots at Lexington and Concord to the precision-guided munitions in modern-day Baghdad, America’s history has been forged in the heat of battle. This February, join A&E Home Video and THE HISTORY CHANNEL for the most comprehensive DVD set ever created charting U.S. military conflict with the AMERICA AT WAR MEGASET. Featuring over 32 hours of award-winning documentaries from one of the most respected sources of historical programming – 35 ground-breaking docs on 14 DVDs – the definitive U.S. war set is a military historian’s dream. It will be available to add to every home entertainment library on February 26 for the collectible price of $129.95SRP.
As the saying goes, “You pick your battles,” and just as with an individual, a nation can also be judged by the battles it chooses and how it conducts itself in war. With this comprehensive DVD set, featuring some of the most acclaimed programs exploring U.S. conflict, viewers now have the raw material to authoritatively make that judgment themselves. Steeped in the expertise of world-renowned scholars, historians and war correspondents, illustrated by dynamic CGI graphics and rare archival footage and dramatized with captivating, lavish reenactments, these documentaries present over 200 years of combat history in rich detail and compelling context, conveying the personal stories of courage, ambition, blunder and betrayal not often found in history books.
The AMERICA AT WAR MEGASET includes six complete documentaries on the American Revolution and eight covering the current War in Iraq, bookending incisive examinations of the Alamo, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, as well as the conflicts in Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf. Bonus programs venture beyond tactics and events to examine fascinating aspects of modern combat, namely the latest weaponry and the experiences of embedded journalists. The chronologically-ordered set is as follows:
• Revolutionary War (Volumes 1-3)
• The Alamo (Volume 4)
• Civil War (Volumes 5-6)
• WWI (Volume 7)
• WWII (Volumes 8-9)
• Korean War (Volume 10)
• Vietnam War (Volume 11)
• Gulf War (Volume 12)
• Iraq War (Volume 13-14)
Featuring the best of top-rated specials and series from THE HISTORY CHANNEL, in scale and thoroughness, the AMERICA AT WAR MEGASET is an unprecedented offering bringing viewers closer that ever to the heated heart of combat.
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