| Below is a list of tracks for this release. |
| Side & track | Track and Artist | Length |
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| WAR AND PEACE IN EUROPE |
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| A1 | The great war - Ex-private W. Quinton describes an early gas attack on the Western Front | |
| A2 | Hitler - the man - General Bor-Komorowsky, C. B. Fry, and Herr von Hinkel recall the differing impressions made on each of them the first time they saw Hitler [Interviewer - Dr. Stephen Black] | |
| A3 | A Jew in Germany - Else Rosenfeld recalls some of her experiences in Germany during '30s | |
| A4 | The Rhineland - Freddy Grisewood announces that German troops entered the Rhineland (7.3.36) | |
| A5 | Appeasement - a 'Times' editorial reflects contemporary feeling about the Czech-German dispute | |
| A6 | Chamberlain's return from Munich - The Prime Minister justifies his action over Czechoslovakia | |
| A7 | The King's Speech - George VI warns the nation about the struggle which faces Britain (3.9.39) | |
| A8 | Lord Haw-Haw - William Joyce broadcasts an account of a 'murder' committed by British forces on unarmed Germans. (18.2.40) In fact, a party from HMS Copssack had boarded the German prison ship Altmark and rescued British prisoners. During the boarding, one German fell overboard and was rescued by British officers | |
| A9 | The progress of the war; broadcasters - Bernard Stubbs (31.5.40); Battle of Britain - Alvar Liddell (15.9.40); El Alamein - Godfrey Talbot (2.11.42); Naples - Frank Gillard (1.10.43); Moscow - Reginald Watson-Jones (8.11.43); D-Day - Alan Melville (6.6.44); resistance instructions - SHAEF (3.9.44); the Rhine - Wynford Vaughan Thomas(31.3.45); Dortmund - a British military officer (13.4.45) | |
| A10 | The Resistance Movement - Col. Berthaud, a member of the French Resistance, recalls both a funny and a dangerous moment during his five years in the Underground | |
| A11 | Belsen Concentration Camp - Richard Dimbleby tells what he saw when the Allies entered Belsen | |
| A12 | Displaced persons - Three 'Displaced Persons' from the British Zone of Germany describe their backgrounds, their feelings, and their lives | |
| A13 | German re-entry into European affairs - A. P. Ryan summarises the conflicting attitudes which underlay the Western powers' decision to set up the federal German government | |
| A14 | Common Market versus Commonwealth - Hugh Gaitskell, Leader of the Opposition puts the case for retaining our ties with the Commonwealth (21.9.62). Similar arguments were advanced during the 1970-71 negotiations for entry | |
| THE SUPER-POWERS - RUSSIA |
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| B1 | Revolution in Petrograd - Phillips Price, M. P., remembers how it all began | |
| B2 | Lenin - the man - Roman Sagovsky, then an army cadet, recalls Lenin speaking in 1917 | |
| B3 | Red Army speech - Lenin encourages his followers in a speech made during the civil way (1919) | |
| B4 | Stalin - the man - K. P. S. Menon recalls Stalin at the height of his power [Interviewer - Mark Tully] | |
| B5 | Treason trials - A Radio Moscow broadcast reports the result of one such trial in 1936 | |
| B6 | Stalingrad, 1943 - Paul Winterton describes conditions in this much fought-over city | |
| B7 | Life in a labour camp - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winner, based this description in 'one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich' on his own experience. He had spent eight years in a labour camp for making an unflattering comment about Stalin in a private letter | |
| B8 | Khrushchev - by Denis Healey, M. P., Michael Glenny, Sir Willian Hayter, and John Cronin, M. P. | |
| B9 | Modern Russia - Denis Blakeley explains how (even after the imprisonment under Khrushchev) Russian living standards cannot be compared with those in the West [Interviewer - Chris Cvlic] | |
| B10 | The Hungarian Revolution - Russell Taylor and George Cooper describe their early experiences among the Freedom Fighters of Budapest [Interviewer - George Urban] | |
| B11 | The Berlin Wall - Brian Horton and Ronald Robson broadcast despatches (12-13.8.61) | |
| B12 | An appeal for help - A Czech girl broadcasts a plea for support as the Russians enter Prague | |
| THE SUPER-POWERS - AMERICA |
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| B13 | US Opinion, 1939 - Raymond Gram Swing explains the mixed reaction to the outbreak of World War II | |
| B14 | Nagasaki, 1945 - Leonard Cheshire VC describes the fearful effect of an atomic bomb explosion | |
| B15 | Berlin airlift - Richard Sharp reports on the success of the airlift, and Gatow Control 'talks down' a pilot flying supplies into the Western Zone (3.7.48) | |
| B16 | Korean P. O. W. - Derek Kinne, VC, who escaped from a Korean prisoner-of-war camp, talks about his experiences [Interviewer - Arthur Appletomn] | |
| B17 | Vietnam-US attitudes - G. I.'s discuss the war with John Morgan; US students condemn it (1965) | |
| B18 | Vietnam-Asian attitudes - Patrick Gordon Walker, M. P. sums up (1965) [Interviewer - Dr. Norman Hunt] | |
| Total length of media 0:00. |
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BBC OP TV - OP 165/166
