Book of the Week is actually Two DVD Series of the Week

This week, I would like to recommend two DVD Series that captures the part of the historical origins of the world we have today.

The first is the DVD series on World War One based on the Hew Strachan work "The First World War." It is a truly global accounting of how the war started, the course it ran, and the implications for the world 100 years later.

The second DVD series is CNN's "Cold War" masterly narrated by Kenneth Branagh and executive produced by Jeremy Issacs who also produced a series on World War Two ("The World at War") narrated by Laurence Oliver.