The last in the eight-part series
Presented by Michael Howard

January 1945. British and American bombers are pouring thousands of tons of bombs on Germany. In the Far East, massive B29 raids are smashing Japan and fire bomb raids on Tokyo have done extensive damage. The populations of the 'aggressor nations' are now understanding the full meaning of total war... a war quite deliberately directed against civilians, for in a struggle between great industrial nations, who is a civilian?
As Russian troops strike towards Berlin from the East, and Allied troops from the West cross the Rhine and advance into Germany, the United States debate the decision to use the most powerful weapon known to mankind at the time, the Atomic Bomb.
Tonight Michael Howard analyses the culmination of World War II.

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