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Hello, everyone.

My name is Wesley Levisa from the History of the Second World War podcast.

Join me on a journey to the most destructive conflict in human history.

A journey that will take us not just through the famous campaigns and cataclysmic battles,

but also to the lesser well-known corners of the war that touched millions all over the

world as we try and answer not just the questions of what and where, but how and why.

You can find History of the Second World War on all major podcast platforms or at History

of the Second World War dot com.

It was an absolute massacre.

Outnumbered frightened people with no escape, jumping out windows, climbing over fences,

barricading doors.

We see it starkly in bold lines and incredible detail.

It's like we're there, gunpowder, broken windows and broken pieces of furniture.

It's all captured in the best technology of its time, and in 1866, that's the wood

block.

Things soaked and laid on a press bed until its tiny truth is presented in thousands

of newspapers and magazines.

The skilled engraver must draw lightly in reverse, etching white on black ink, the outline

of the body strewn on the floor, the broken chair, the window frame, with the tell-tale

bullet hole, the outline of a man with pistol tans, others with the shape of clubs.

Like a surgeon, he then chooses his instruments carefully and makes very precise cuts.

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