WW2: An Absolute War I Episode 1: Before Total War I Pure WW2

Before World War II engulfed the globe, the methods of total war were already being tested. In the years between the two world wars, conflict zones in Manchuria, China, Abyssinia, and Spain became brutal laboratories of modern destruction. There, armies refined tactics that would later be unleashed on a far greater scale, against soldiers and civilians alike. This documentary explores those early battlefields as grim warnings of what was to come. Each conflict revealed new forms of violence, new ways of targeting populations, and new ideas about how war could be fought without limits. Clear, powerful, and deeply revealing, it shows how the road to World War II was shaped by these terrible precedents, long before the world understood what total war would truly mean. Title: WW2: Total war, episode 1 Director: Mike Kenneally Production: TCD, DRG Company (2018) #wwii #worldwar2 #japan #spanishcivilwar #manchuria #china #abyssinia #interwar #warhistory #historydocumentary