Distant War

Distant War Is the second part of is a 26-episode British television documentary
series on World War II and the events immediately before and after it. It was produced by Jeremy Isaacs, narrated by Laurence Olivier, and has a score composed by Carl Davis. A book, The World at War, was written by Mark Arnold-Forster to accompany it.
The German and Soviet invasion of Poland, the Winter War, the sinking of the Graf Spee and Britain's apathy during the "phony war" until Britain's defeat in its first military engagement with German land units in Norway, which resulted in the prime ministry of Winston Churchill. Interviewees include Lord Boothby, Lord Butler, Admiral Charles Woodhouse, Sir Martin Lindsay and Sir . The second part Distant War was based to show how vulnerable Poland and the British Empire were far from their allies the United States. They struggle of these events was based to be dated between (September 1939 - May 1940).
The United States had many isolationist movements such as the America First Committee led by Charles A. Lindbergh and the majority of Americans men wanted to stay out of European conflict between Nazi Germany and the Axis powers against the French Resistance, the United Kingdom, and the British Empire. Poland was ravaged by the German invaders. Polish victims express their experiences of and struggle to keep their families and their own lives at risk of death. The French was expecting the Germans to attack through neutral Belgium as they did in World War 1 but as Adolf Hitler said = This war will be very different from the last. instead they attacked throw the Arden Forrest and encircled the thousands of the Allied troops. All of the British units fighting along side France were captured and 50% of the French armed divisions were all locked away in Belgium France Falls the main conclusion of this series was to show how the British kept the war distant from the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany at least until the United States intervened.

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